WB: Left on its own terms

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance would probably have lost the 2009 general election even if its candidate from Pilibhit had not been caught on camera making a provocative hate speech. The significance of Varun Gandhi’s misplaced show of muscular sectarianism, which was repeated ad nauseam on television, was that it bolstered an existing trend and widened the BJP’s electoral deficit.

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