Updated On: 16 February, 2010 08:29 AM IST | | Daipayan Halder
Okay, so a pre-Valentine blast has shifted the debate from Hindu hooliganism to Muslim terror
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Okay, so a pre-Valentine blast has shifted the debate from Hindu hooliganism to Muslim terror. But last week's tamasha over a Bollywood movie has revealed more than the Shiv Sena's lack of political imagination. It has exposed the Congress' doppelganger. In much the same way the BJP's Hindutva core was laid bare.u00a0
In power, and out of it, there were two BJPs. The good BJP, and the bad BJP. Simply put, for the urban Indian middle class, there was the anti-Congress, right-of-centre, pro-middle class party that promised to do things differently. And for the heartlands, there was the loony fringe that worshipped cows and demonised Muslims.
And talked about a Hindu India. This arrangement worked well for sometime, till the party was done in by its own contradictions.
The Congress is clearly at the other end. The favoured party of the minorities, the Congress is pro-poor, pro-reforms,
pro-modernisation, pro-youth, pro-everything-that-would-help-India-make-the-next-big-leap.
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