With the fall of the Congress-JDS government in Karnataka, BJP is now in power in 17 states and Congress in 4. The Amit Shah- led BJP is an insatiably hungry political machine. Armed with killer instinct, formidable money power and force of official agencies, it is gobbling up large chunks of the Opposition. From Maharashtra to Goa now to Karnataka, defectors are streaming towards the saffron party, which is swallowing them whole, reducing Congress to a shrivelled weakling, a party not just in ICU, but almost facing post-death rigor mortis.
BJP’s Sudhanshu Trivedi recently provided a rather accurate analysis of Congress’s predicament of needing the oxygen of power to stay alive: “satta chooti, Congress tooti.” Without the lifeblood of access to Read More
