In Assam and Bengal, Congress is standing on a very narrow Muslim base
www.indiatoday.in
The Congress won 21 of the 390 seats it contested in Assam and West Bengal. Of the 21 winners, 20 are Muslims. The party, which attacks the BJP as communal, is getting caught in its own trap. And the warning came from within Congress way back in 2014.

This article gives an idea how the votebank and the geopolitics works in the subcontinent.

  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    4 hours ago

    This article gives an idea how the votebank and the geopolitics works in the subcontinent.

    No it doesn’t, it assumes the reader already knows this. As someone not familiar with Indian politics it was very unclear that ‘The Congress’ refers to a political party instead of an institution.

    • MastKalandar@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
      31·
      3 hours ago

      Same here in lndia. You need to tell people out here that in the USA, Congress refers to the nation’s Parliament:)))

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 hours ago

    BJP (the potential) is the reason the original Muslim League wanted a separate Pakistan.

    RSS didn’t even spare Gandhi. Jinnah’s assessment of the extremist group eventually becoming the majority turned out to be true.

    And not like BJP is even better for Indians from a policy perspective, they’re infamously even more nepotistic and corrupt prone than INC. Modi basically spent his first two terms throwing away the leverage of the nation’s massive IT industry and solid relations with Russia for getting dumped by Trump via tariffs and visa bans.

    Not to mention his double air force fiasco with Pakistan.