Others like Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra were less successful. India’s oldest party was formed 132 years ago and has been out of power for only three years.V.In the south, it is losing ground to the BJP faster than it thinks and Hindutva continues its patient and relentless march in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. But even he has no reason to merge his party back into the Congress because the brand is tainted. This will work to the disadvantage of his party as it fades nationally into irrelevance. It did not have any real ideology Wholesale Party Tent Factory and this continued under P. But it is clear that as a national force it is comatose if not dead. Its brand is severely damaged and carries very little that is positive.Lal Krishna Advani changed Indian politics with the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. The party will bumble along because being family owned there is no accountability. He has a few more decades of activity ahead of him. In large parts of north India it is in permanent Opposition. As was observed earlier, it does not stand for anything. Its constituents tried to keep the anti-Congressism alive through the Janata Dal but that was an insufficient glue and it fractured into south and north versions of the party. Reports say that the recent hammering the Congress got in Maharashtra’s local elections came after candidates got no financial support from the party.M. The Partition of India came because of the failure to reach an agreement and in India the Muslim League more or less vanished.
It was formed during the Emergency and lost relevance soon after.It is possible that the Congress may be revived under another leader. It went because the party’s brand was associated with Partition.The Janata Party, which defeated Indira Gandhi, was a patchwork coalition of regional parties. The party was set up in the early 20th century to secure the political rights of Muslims and to engage with the colonial power. Some of them successfully captured the party organisation, like Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. The old men who were Nehru’s colleagues formed their own Congress but Indira was strong and captured the organisation because of her charisma and popularity. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh. In Pakistan, the Muslim League held power for a decade after Partition under various Prime Ministers. The party’s primary platform, the two-nation theory, did not remain relevant in a mostly Muslim nation. Though he was repeatedly elected from Kerala, this man, G. When it vanishes as a national force (meaning when it can no longer get sufficient votes to hold onto its symbol, the hand) it will not have been the first large Indian party to die.How do political parties die? It is interesting to look at this as we observe the long and slow death of the Congress.When Gen. This was because they feared the BJP and what it stood for and by now, under Rajiv Gandhi, the Congress stopped standing for anything much.The Congress has lost power in Delhi because it has been squeezed out of states. Zia-ul-Haq’s Prime Minister Junejo formed the Muslim League (J) and Gen. This tradition of the party breaking and reforming itself in support of a military ruler continued over the decades. The anti-Congress impulse of the Janata Party’s fragments became an anti-Hindutva impulse.
This was the first of many versions of the party in Pakistan. Competent Congress leaders in the regions long ago saw the death coming. In many other large states, where the BJP is either ruling or in Opposition, the Congress is fourth or fifth, meaning it is irrelevant. The one big split in it happened after Lal Bahadur Shastri died and Indira Gandhi took power.For many years a single MP represented the party under the Indian Union Muslim League name. But Rahul Gandhi is not an old man. The party in power today, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) was also formed in the period of Zia. Banatwala, was a Gujarati. Pervez Musharraf was supported by the Muslim League (Q). Its two biggest leaders died soon after the creation of the country. Ayub Khan seized power a few years later, the party Jinnah had led split and formed the Convention Muslim League. This is a dangerous sign but it is unlikely to be heeded.. Governor Gen. The Janata Party was socialist and anti-Congress in its ideology. It tried and failed to negotiate an arrangement to share power with the Congress (which was seen by many Muslims as a Hindu party, just as the BJP is seen today). And it has no real political message for its small base of voters. It has not won an election in Gujarat for three decades. Its decade in power from 2004-2014 hid some facts.The All-India Muslim League died because it ran out of a reason to exist.
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