Why BJP welcomes turncoats under the benign gaze of RSS

After its West Bengal debacle the BJP must once again demonstrate that it is a party attractive to power seekers. Defections from other parties help to showcase it as a potential winner.

Is Jitin Prasada’s exit from the Congress, eight months before the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, realistically a major gain for the BJP and a terrible loss for the Congress? Defeated in three consecutive elections, Prasada’s credentials as a popular Brahmin caste leader are weak. Neither is the BJP short of Brahmin faces in UP. To claim that his entry will correct public perception of the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath leaning excessively towards Thakurs and help the party electorally is an absurd spin.

So why is the BJP encouraging defectors from other parties in Uttar Pradesh?

The party needs to change