While the Bhartiya Janta Party must be lauded for their stellar performance in the northeast, their victory in the Left bastion should serve as a warning signal to the Left parties to reorient their structure and devise strategies that would help in arresting their continuing electoral decline. Merely extending their support to student uprisings in universities and dismissing every policy of the government as anti-poor in the hope of connecting with their traditional support groups as an ideology has outlived its time. It must come up with fresh ideas and dynamic leadership, both at the Centre and in states, if it wants to present its candidature as a serious player outside university campuses.
Shreyans Jain New Delhi
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