Political success comes from ideas, not intellectual laziness
Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is an important initiative. It aims to pose a challenge to BJP’s ideological dominance. Congress has come out with a few attractive slogans and a website is dedicated entirely for making it a people’s initiative.
This attempted ideological refashioning has its own political significance. The old secular/communal binary has already lost its electoral importance; while, the conventional Mandal politics based on an imagined unity of all deprived sections has virtually failed. In a way, Bharat Jodo Yatra is the first positive resolve to produce a counter-narrative since 2014.
This attempted ideological refashioning has its own political significance. The old secular/communal binary has already lost its electoral importance; while, the conventional Mandal politics based on an imagined unity of all deprived sections has virtually failed. In a way, Bharat Jodo Yatra is the first positive resolve to produce a counter-narrative since 2014.