Why BJP should say ‘thank you’ for Mayawati’s tight slap

Did the BJP blow it all by immaturely targeting Mayawati’s stand on foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retailing? The answer is yes and no. On the face of it, Sushma Swaraj’s charge that Mayawati had been influenced by Congress’s misuse of the CBI seems to have triggered the Bahujan Samaj Party’s about-turn on the FDI vote. Swaraj also pointed out during the Lok Sabha debate that Mayawati had no problems approaching a “communal” BJP when it came to it seeking support for quotas in promotions for SCs/STs, but that when it came to returning the favour on the FDI vote, the same BJP became ‘communal’.

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