Opinion of the Bharatiya Janata Party

[anvi]

Hmmm, the BJP.  Nukes for India, national and state politicians at the forefront of campaigns to destroy mosques and attack Muslim civilians, ever-ramping up hostilities in Kashmir, ect., ect... Nope, shouldn't be in power. 

[anvi]

Haven't visited the forum for a while, so just to respond to a few questions of me on this thread:

I know the bomb was first acquired for India by Indira Gandhi.  But the BJP supported it, led a parliamentary coalition on that very issue in the '90's, and saw their tests and deployment through. 

In principle, I don't want anyone to have nukes.  Least of all white people.  I've written a lot of posts on this forum about why I disagreed with the U.S. decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, just for reference.  I do understand the geopolitical pressures on counties to have them once other countries have built up stockpiles.  That doesn't make them good.

Just because other political parties don't represent good alternatives is no reason for anyone to like the BJP.  I'm quite familiar with the differences between the BJP, the VHP, the RSS and so on.  Still, their major political leaders of the BJP in the last two and a half decades have been at the very least associated with movements that incite religious violence, and sometimes worse than merely associated.  Few things, in my view, could be worse for India.

But they won in a sweep, so they're in power now.  All we can do is hope for the best for the time being.