Sack of the Hindu caravan

Not just Congress but all 'secular' parties like SP, RJD and BSP, which are frustrated with current arrangement under the Modi-Shah BJP, need to answer one question: How did you lose your Hindu vote?

While we can keep arguing whether it’s a good or a bad thing, there is no doubt that Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has built our most Hindu establishment yet. This is mostly to the exclusion of minorities, especially the Muslims, as we showed with the data in last week’s National Interest.

If the BJP’s voters, about twice as many as the next largest party (the Congress), are happy with this, who’s to complain? In a democracy, the numbers win. If you don’t like this, reverse the numbers. To even initiate that secular, centrist fightback, you have