Mukul Roy’s exit from the Bharatiya Janata Party and reports of more recent Trinamool Congress imports wanting to leave the party underlines the challenges the saffron party faces in its attempt to expand its footprint outside its core base, the Hindi heartland.
Most of the areas outside the Hindi belt are not the ideal breeding ground of the Hindutva ideology that the BJP professes. Recruits to the BJP do not have the same ideological commitment to the party and its beliefs as those from the saffron brigade’s stomping grounds.
Yet the need to expand beyond its core area is necessary. so the BJP since 2014 has coopted leaders and workers from others parties, leading to its expansion in the northeast even.
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