Opposition parties in India have been ranting about forging a grand alliance against the BJP-led NDA but every time someone convenes a meeting, some party or parties do not show up. After BJP swept to power in 2014, the party changed the manner in which elections were fought. It was a determined party that left no stone unturned to regain power and at any cost. The biggest contribution for the ascendency of the BJP is the Congress which has totally lost its bearings and has been outplayed and outmanoeuvred at every election. Today, the opposition parties are unable even to get together for a meeting and it is all because of ego. With two states \u2013Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh- to go to the polls by end of 2022, opposition parties are tripping each other to propel themselves as alternative to the ruling BJP in both states. The irony of the so-called efforts to bring all opposition parties on board to forge a united alliance against the BJP in 2024 appears to be a fancy dream if not, a tall order. It may be recalled that in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the BJP alone received a whopping 37.36 % of the votes cast countrywide. The NDA as a whole received around 45% of the votes. The remaining 55% was shared among all other non-NDA political parties. Based on this premise, opposition parties feel they could still give it a shot in 2024 to beat the BJP especially after former allies Shiv Sena and Akala Dal quit the NDA. Theoretically, the Congress is potentially the alternative to the BJP but unfortunately, the grand old party has been on a downhill slide since 2014.Today, the Congress has been losing leader after leader even as it has also been losing one state after another in elections. The strange case with the Congress, is that it\u2019s \u201celected\u201d president Rahul resigned in 2019 after the second 2014 disastrous election which he led. The post was reverted back to Sonia by \u201cFamily loyalist\/sycophants\u201d who remains as interim president since 2019. Veteran leaders known as G 23 have been demanding overhaul of the party and election of a full time president. Instead, the Congress high command sent a strong message that the party needs the family no matter what happens and that those who differ are free to choose whether to go or stay. The last straw on the series of missteps was the Punjab debacle where the new entrant -Priyanka Vadra- bet on Sidhu against Amarinder and what happened is history and ended up handing Punjab to the AAP. Next she brought Congress to its lowest ebb in UP when the party won only two seats with reduced vote share as against four seats it won in 2017. Aam Admi Party\u2019s landslide win in Punjab means the party is ruling in two states-Delhi and Punjab. Mamata Banerjee wants to be projected as the leader of the united opposition bu AAP is not enthusiastic about coming under TMC or Congress. Both TMC and AAP seek to benefit from poaching the Congress yet still talk of an opposition unity. TMC and AAP are confined to a state or two whereas Congress still has a pan-India presence but it appears its high command is only fulfilling the BJP\u2019s goal of Congress-mukt Bharat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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