Comments by "పానకాలు పూనకం" (@PanakaluPoonakam) on "Why do political leaders defect or stay? Look beyond obvious answers of ideology, money, power" video.

  1. I work closely with the political parties. According to me, there is another reason/dimension - Being connected to the people/voters and understanding their pulse. BJP and YSRCP, to the extent I know have built machines that are close to people and regularly be in touch with voters and have keen sense of aspirations of the people. However there is a slight decline in prospects of YSRCP, why? Knowing and understanding people isn't sufficient; one has to act on it. But the state of Andhra Pradesh is so cash strapped that it can't do what it wants to. BJP OTOH have machine, muscle, money, message and the means.
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  2. Correct. Congress and Left don't understand the nature of India. Unlike US, India is NOT a constitutional state. Its a civilizational state. Most of Indians don't even know that our constitution "claims" to be secular. People are just naturally secular. They are NOT secular because they've learnt from NCERT textbooks that our constitution is secular and we are supposed to be so.
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  3.  @DataCrusade1999 Suppose I did write all that to portray BJP in good light what are you going to do? Kya ukhad lo ge? Chew tiya kahin ka. Chal nikal
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