Notwithstanding its performance in the Maharashtra Assembly polls, Professor Badri Narayan, social scientist and cultural anthropologist, tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih that the BJP is a formidable political force today. "It is at its peak. It may not be possible for it to ascend any higher -- and it should be understood that the BJP has acquired this height even without the Ram Janambhoomi issue," he tells Rediff.com. Read the interview here.