Friday 22 May 2009

The pitfalls of political analysis

Did the BJP lose because it was too right-wing, or because it was not right-wing enough?

It never ceases to amaze me how intelligent and well-informed people can have such drastically opposed viewpoints. Not that I'm equivocating between the two; I certainly think the first one is much closer to the truth, and the second one seemingly fails to answer a simple question: why did the people vote for the Congress?