BJP in search of a message

Many decades ago a distinguished British parliamentarian remarked that Opposition was more about principles in a way that Government with its preoccupation with compromises never can be. The gentleman, who spent most of his career in the backbenches as a political untouchable, was a rarity. In real life, the quest for the Opposition space has also involved expedience, inconsistency and even duplicity. Apart from moments of crisis such as war or an imminent national breakdown — as in Greece and Italy — the Opposition has been content to use parliamentary politics as an arena of one-upmanship. 

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