![]() ![]() The middle class gained ground there and they wanted the Hindutva identity politics. In states that they used to be strong in the pre 2002 era, they started losing ground very quickly. Basically, a tired party that has stopped fighting in ever diminishing circles of existence, both ideologically and physically in terms of cadre. ![]() After 2009-2010, the Congress had begun to be the Congress we see today. The shifting sands of various political parties ate up all their time and they were paralysed by that. (Revati Laul is a Delhi-based journalist and film-maker, and the author of ‘The Anatomy of Hate’, forthcoming from Context /Westland in November 2018. In UPA (United Progressive Alliance)- 2, they were on such shakey ground. At the national level, they were consistently and stridently against this. ![]() The Congress was singularly missing from the picture at the regional level. Revati Laul is the author of The Anatomy of Hate (3.99 avg rating, 269 ratings, 40 reviews) and The East Was Read (4.04 avg rating, 23 ratings, 4 reviews. What happened after 2002 is that the victims looked desperately towards the Congress in Gujarat for help and the Congress was seen to let them down massively when it came to actually holding their hands through riots cases, but civil society stepped in. ![]()
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