PM and Amit Shah are set to rejuvenate the 25 year old Alliance By Harihar Swarup May 15 was the 25th anniversary of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which was formed in 1998. On May 26 Prime Minister Narendra Modi reminded his party that no alliance other than NDA has remained intact for a quarter century.
While it's right that the NDA in its current form has completed 25 years, the first avatar of the alliance came about much earlier in August 1983 but it did not work and collapsed just a year later.
By getting Cong base of SCs and minorities into their respective folds, BSP and SP scripted end of its rule in UP. Realisation that their social bases were not enough first got them together