Right Word | Ideology As The Glue: Why The BJP Retains While Others Lose Leaders

The core difference between the BJP and the other mainstream parties, when it comes to checking exodus, is ‘ideology’

Seven members of the Rajya Sabha from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. A large number of leaders from other parties have joined the BJP since 2014.

It raises an important question, which has lessons for the political parties in the Opposition: why are they not able to hold back their leaders, and why, on the other hand, has the BJP never split? Neither has there been any major exodus from the BJP, even though the party remained in opposition for several decades after Independence. This is despite the fact that Congress governments, as well as Congress-led coalition governments at the Centre, targeted the BJP and its earlier avatar, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).

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The biggest example in recent history is when the Emergency was imposed in 1975–77 and all the prominent BJS leaders were put in jail along with thousands of its workers.

Ideology as the binding force

The core difference between the BJP and the other........

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