A sacrifice the BJP cannot afford

April 18, 2013 16:30

With the Bharatiya Janata Party's rank and file squarely behind Narendra Modi, a parting of ways with Janata Dal-United's Nitish Kumar may now be impossible to prevent.

Maybe this is what Nitish actually desired, since it gives him a clear 10 months to forge a realignment of forces in Bihar.

But no realignment can be one-sided. There are forces in Bihar that could make the outcome of a triangular contest in a Lok Sabha election terribly uncertain.

The implications of trying to derail Modi on the strength of a sectional veto may have its own logic that could even override entrenched caste loyalties.

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