Written by Ashutosh Varshney
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Updated: August 3, 2017
The significance of Nitish Kumar’s
embrace of the BJP cannot be overstated. The BJP’s stunning victory in
UP, and now its return to power in Bihar, undoubtedly consolidates its
hold over Indian politics. But is that all?
Over the last few days, it has repeatedly been said that ideology has
ceased to matter in Indian politics, and a full-blown political
marketplace, where the price of victory and defeat is calculated with
the finesse of a stock-broker, has emerged. It has also been suggested
that the so-called millennials, those born in the decade of the 1990s,
are less ideologically inclined and more interested in economic
aspirations and India’s glory on the world stage. They are ushering in
an ideological erosion in Indian politics.
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