Saffron fading

摘要

When a party dominated by dalits-those former wretches known as "untouchables"-swept to power in Uttar Pradesh (UP) on May 11th, the lamentable performance of India's ruling Congress party made headlines. Congress's campaign in UP had been run by Rahul Gandhi, a glamorous member of the family that has ruled both party and country. His failure to improve its abysmal fortunes in UP, India's biggest state, suggested that Indians are out-of-love with dynastic politics. But significant as this was, there was a bigger casualty of the vote: the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).