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Why BJP and Congress must merge

How long will it take for the Tories and the Whigs of India to come together? Not very long. Maybe just ten years.

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
For the last 20 years, whenever the general election comes around, I trot out an old idea of mine — the Congress and the BJP must merge. People laugh but the fact is undeniable: The two parties have become peas in a pod. They are alike in every respect except their political loyalty.

Both have just one loyalty, which is a very large one, the loyalty to a single family. In the case of the BJP, it is the RSS family and in the case of the Congress it is the Gandhi family.

In symbols you can write the RSS:BJP::Gandhis:Congress.
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