Blunder Janata Party

There couldn’t have been a better time for the BJP, since its loss of power in the summer of 2004, to be smiling. The UPA government is non-functional. The Congress itself has been reeling under a killer onslaught from Anna Hazare’s activists, marked out as the most villainous of the contemptible political class. The economy has been in disaster zone, the rupee in free-fall and even though it has been moderating a bit now, inflation at levels that are electorally toxic. The mood of the Congress’s allies ranges from sullen (DMK) to angry (NCP), to contemptuously rebellious (TMC). For a well-organised challenger, this is about as good as it gets. Yet, with three weeks to go into the first phase of polling, it is the BJP that is beginning to look out of sorts and on the defensive.

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