Mainstream WeeklyJanuary 6, 2025
Its ability to set the terms of the national discourse and political agility prompts BJP leaders to claim that they will be in power for a few more decades.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asserted that it will be in power for a long time.
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah recently claimed that the party would be at the helm for the next 15 years [1]. Earlier, in 2015, he had said the next 30-year period would be the era of the BJP [2].
The party has been in power in the state of Gujarat for more than two decades. It has ruled India for over ten years and won a third successive five-year term in June 2024.
What makes the BJP so sure it will continue to be in power?
The BJP has made institutional changes aimed at retaining power for a long time. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi claims that it has institutionalised malpractices, and that is why the fight was not against a party but the