Goodbye Gandhian socialism: BJP with Conservative, Christian democrats?

BJP is now a member of an international coalition of political parties - IDU

To some of his critics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has jettisoned his earlier promise of reform, job growth and supporting private enterprise and adopted ‘garib kalyan’, or welfare of the poor, as the leitmotif of his government. His government's demonetization decision has even been described as Stalinist. But his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) doesn’t consider itself a party of ‘Gandhian socialism’ anymore.

It is now a member of an international coalition of political parties, the International Democratic Union (IDU), that comprise "Conservative, Christian democrat and like-minded political parties of the centre and centre right.”

Vijay Chauthaiwale, the