This refers to the editorial "Manifesto let-down" (April 8). The much belaboured document of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has finally seen the light of day. The party plank is now seen to remain the same, of course, with a generous veneer of development. Enthusiasts of the development-driven agenda were perhaps hoping to cross the tricky straits of 2014, purely on the strength of this laboriously engineered "veneer". They forget that it is the plank that carries the veneer, not vice versa. The realisation that a party plank built and seasoned through extreme political climes can only be set aside in an act of political hara-kiri, ought to have dawned much earlier on the BJP collective. For the BJP, this episode is not without damage.
R Narayanan Ghaziabad
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