This refers to the report, “SP-Congress to take on resurgent BJP” (January 18). It is a pity that the grand old party has come to such low ebb that it has to repeatedly become subservient to regional parties for its survival. First, it played a third fiddle to the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Janata Dal(United) combine in Bihar and now in Uttar Pradesh, it has tagged itself to the Samajwadi Party. Who is to be blamed for such a decline of an erstwhile national partyIJ The question is not difficult to answer. It is the party itself.
Perhaps the leaders were over-confident of being irremovable from power, and hence, they allowed massive corruption under their regime. Second, they continued to rely on hackneyed slogans of secularism which did not work. It’s high time the party reviews its approach and shed their dynastic credentials. As far as the BJP is concerned, it has to be only proud of itself that it has gained such an ascendency that a situation has been created where all the wrestlers combined together are fighting the single one.