The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Mr Narendra Modi is unlike any other party in India — past or present. Its goal is not to win elections as often as possible; its goal is to win elections and remain in power forever. In that sense, the BJP is like the Communist Party of China. The CPC’s road to power was through a brutal war against the Japanese invaders and, after Japan’s surrender in 1945, through a bitter civil war against the Kuomintang (KMT) in 1949. The CPC has remained in power since.

Mao Zedong proclaimed a one-party state in China in 1949; India won Independence from Britain in 1947 and proceeded to write a secular, democratic and Republican Constitution. India’s Constitution adopted in 1950 allows multiple political parties and mandates periodic elections and peaceful transfer of power at the Union-level and the State-level. This is the crucial difference between China and India.

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