The Making and Breaking of Alliances in the Indian Political System By Deepak Parvatiyar September 16, 2014 Recently, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended its association with the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) and decided to go all alone in the upcoming state elections in Haryana. Obviously, the party was guided by its unprecedented success in the state in the last general elections. It had won seven of the nine seats that it had contested while the HJC failed to open its account. The HJC unsuccessfully tried its best for the continuation of the alliance. But why should the upbeat BJP yield? It is true that under a powerful general there are no feeble soldiers! And it is equally true that the powerful are never faithful! Political Alliances : The Game of Possibilities Isn’t the craving for power a great uniting force? I recall a speech by L K Advani at a BJP meeting soon after the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was dethroned after the 2004 general elections.
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