Yep, and it was the BJP that realized that coalitions are here to stay, and said so! It was this other "Great Party, with The Madam" at its helm, which proclaimed, till recently, that it was going to go it alone. Talk of pompostuosity (??what the h*ck is the correct word here?). Shows how much removed from reality this virus is! Ofcourse, it quickly beat a retreat, and tied up with the other dregs of the socitey like AIADMK and RJD (I can never fathom how Jayalalitha still manages to win some seats! As I said, I dont have a very high opinion of the Indian electorate). Thankfully for India, this retreat from such exalted position of forming a govt on its own came a cropper.
And, yes, I didn't approve of BJP tying with such crooks in the past, but for BJP they needed a stepping stone to catapult to the national scene. Is Congress(I) also trying to get to the national scene by tying up crooks? Where was it all these 50-odd years?
In the anals of Indian history, the Great Tea Party attended by the "teen deviyan" of Indian politics ( as dubbed by this other Great Personality, Subramanian Swamy) should have a prominent place. Akin to the Mad Hatters tea party in Alice the Wonderland :-) |
