Talk:Bharatiya Janata Party

One of the BJP's slogans is "true Hindus vote BJP". Recently the prime minister got into a controversy for saying that Hindutva and Indianness are the same. They recently got re-elected in Gujarat using the Hindu nationalist platform. To the BJP, Hindutva doesn't conflict with secularism, Hindutva is secularism. A screwed up world view, but that's how it is. -- Arvindn

• isn't this is pseudo-secular view?

• • isn't the very term 'pseudo-secular' a pro-Hindutva POV term? --Soman 04:49, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Bjp is the best party in INDIA

more you come to know about BJP the more you like it unless you are a hypocrite.It is a party which supports sentiments of Nationalism with development and provides respect to the suppressed Hindu feelings of The Hindu people who are forbidden from respecting their religion in their own country as some people want to be Secular. "I am a secular but I love my religion more than the other" what 's wrong with this????????

I also love BJP!!!! Jai BJP!!!! Template:DaGizza/Sg 00:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

It is your POV

BJP doesn't consider itself to be "Hindu nationalist." You consider it to be so. According to BJP, Hindutva and Indianness are the same. That is exactly the point here. They consider themselves to be Indian Nationalist party. Abdul Kalam, a Muslim became the President of India thanks to them. Please leave out politics and post only facts.

Political science also classifies the BJP as hindu nationalist party. -- till we *) 12:24, Dec 20, 2003 (UTC)

Shouldn't someone mention the violence in Gujarat? The BJP was accused of condoning it or even supporting it. mr100percent 7:51, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

Well, some white supremacists are members of the US Republican Party. Should we mention that in the Republican party page? It was done by people who just so happened to be members. Also, it is propaganda calling the BJP "Hindu nationalists" Doesn't the republicans have a Christian nationalist agenda?

Slight confusion

In the second paragraph after the list of presidents, it says:

The BJP considers itself to be a secular party and [...] However the BJP is considered by some to be a secular party.

Either the 'however' should be reworded, or something else got mixed up. Iaen 14:03, 2004 Oct 12 (UTC)

ideology?

So is the party left-wing, right-wing, socialist, centerist or what?

• Some would claim that it is fascist. Obviously the BJP and it's supporters would dispute that. But it resists analysis in terms of left/right. It's a nationalist party.

Which by the way, is a classical fascist rhetoric. All major fascist movements have used the claim of "neither left nor right, just for the nation".

When writing the article, in order to keep it non-biased it should include both criticism as well as the self-describtion of BJP themselves. However, when discussing the party ideology the article would be incomplete without a through presentation of BJP's roots in BJS, relations to RSS/Sangh Parivar, role in fueling communal clashes, etc. --Soman 07:07, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

use of Bharat

Some of the latest versions of the page use Bharat in place of India in the text. As the Bharat article redirects to the India one, i think it would make sense to replace 'Bharat' with 'India' in most cases since India is the term most commonly used in English Vino s 13:09, 25 August 2005 (UTC)