The Politics of Defection
The RSS tries to reconcile the imperatives of Chanakyaniti ith its moral reservations over defections.
by Uday Mahurkar
Aug 23, 2019
2 minutes
Back in 1981, when a BJP municipal councillor defected to the Congress and brought down the party numbers in the Rajkot Municipal Corporation, veteran BJP leader, the late Chiman Shukla, went on a fast that lasted 19 days. So intense was the moral pressure that the councillor left the Congress and went into political exile.
Later, in 1995, when BJP leader Shankarsinh Vaghela and 47
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