Why bjp opposing fdi

When the party was blocking the monsoon session over the CAG report on coal allocation, I had gone to chat with some of the topmost BJP leaders. If you revisit that, you can easily see where the BJP kept going wrong. It had then calculated that the SP, TMC, and even Mayawati, were keen on an early election and would bring down the government in the winter session.

Coal had also given them their first opportunity to target the prime minister. So they could bring down the government and take the corruption issue to an election in January-February That hope was belied. Coal ceased to be a war cry as the winter session began.

Retail FDI then died as an issue midway through the same session. Mayawati was indulging in Lakhnavi euphemisms in calling these sour grapes. It was much worse. India has no place for politics with such a lack of imagination and such boring predictability. Unless we see a dramatic turn in the weeks following the Gujarat election in the winter of , it would seem that the BJP will again return to the next general election seeking a vote against the UPA rather than a positive mandate on the basis of a distinctive and competitively attractive agenda.

It is because of this lack of imagination — and patience — that the only strategy it has had for nearly nine years now is to somehow bring down this government.

It started with Uma Bharti and Sushma Swaraj threatening extreme forms of self-flagellation, including shaving their heads, sleeping on the floor and eating parched gram if Sonia Gandhi became prime minister in This carried on. And then it continued on to the nuclear deal.

In Parliament then, one session was nearly written off by protests on FDI in retail budget session, until Pranab Mukherjee announced a deferral, another was fully blocked by the demand for a JPC on telecom winter session, , yet another on coal monsoon session, , and nearly half of the current one again on FDI. They are by no means intellectually challenged.

Yet, they allowed a single agenda to drive their political responses: anti-Congressism. Driven by that one emotion, they even sacrificed or suspended?

On the nuclear deal as well as retail FDI, they made common cause with the Left. And how does it work in the end? In each case, the Left could justify embracing the BJP because it was only bringing some most unlikely converts into its ideological tent. The BJP was going out on a limb, totally confusing its core voter.

That is one of the reasons it was so thoroughly rejected in in all the major cities where it had hoped to win. It was not as if the BJP has nothing substantive to offer. It has won several new states and renewed its mandate in many. Its chief ministers are, by and large, the most efficient and effective in the country. Subscribe Now.

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