While the Congress seems pushed into decision-making, the BJP looks like it studies in advance the calibration of the fallout and works out the fixes required before any information reaches the public

For a nation that has been taught to obsessively trumpet the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rise and record the failing note of the Congress, there is a new topic of discussion: the replacement of chief ministers in the states the two parties govern.
The BJP, in the 12 states it controls, changed five chief ministers in four states, in a span of six months. The Congress changed one in the three that it is left to lead. The replacement of the five from BJP – one each in Assam, Karnataka,Gujarat and two in Uttarakhand, generated a new symphony of success. The Congress’s single change in Punjab has inspired yet another cacophonic orchestra. Some may say that cacophony is the nature of democracy, while symphony must be viewed with great suspicion. That may be correct, but what we need to acknowledge is that the Congress’ cacophony is not generated by the dynamics of democracy but due to the creative dullness of the dynasty that controls it.
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