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RogueBeaver
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« on: June 18, 2011, 10:46:54 AM »



1951: Indian National Congress (Jawarhalal Nehru)
1957: Indian National Congress (Jawarhalal Nehru)




1967: Swatantra (C. Rajaji)




1971: Indian National Congress (Indira Gandhi)



1977: Janata (Morarji Desai)




1980: Indian National Congress (Indira Gandhi)
1984: Indian National Congress (Rajiv Gandhi)
1989: Indian National Congress (Rajiv Gandhi)
1991: Indian National Congress (Rajiv Gandhi)
1996: Indian National Congress (P.V.N. Rao)
1998: Indian National Congress
1999: Indian National Congress (Sonia Gandhi)
2004: Indian National Congress (Sonia Gandhi)
2009: Indian National Congress (Manmohan Singh)



*Until 1958 there are no secular or at least moderately religious conservative opponents to the INC. While the BJP are undiluted neoliberals in comparison to the post-1984 Thirdist INC, I won't vote for rabid ultranationalist fundamentalists who stir up ethnic ctrife.
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2011, 04:08:10 PM »

This is the sort of question that can't be easily answered because of the multitude of parties and coalitions and the fact that no party has a candidate in every constituency. I would have been for Nehru throughout his time; apart from his being a great man, the only opposition was C. Rajagopalachari's ridiculous Brahmin neoliberal outfit, for which of course I wouldn't be caught dead voting. I would have been for Indira in 1971, certainly, but just as certainly I would be for the Janata Party after the Emergency. The Emergency would have also ruled out the Communist Party of Indira, just as the war in 1971 ruled out the traitorous fifth column that called itself CPI(M). After the fall of Desai it's hard to say; certainly I would never vote for the BJP or their ilk. Hindutva holds no appeal to me, for obvious reasons. The fact that the Congress is a monarchist party bothers me, but I suppose I would end up voting for Congress and allies anyhow. It would depend on constituency, though.
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2011, 08:06:23 PM »

1951: Socialist Party
1957-1962: Praja Socialist Party
1967: Communist Party of India
1971: Samyutka Socialist Party
1977-1998: Janata Party/Janata Dal/United Front
1999: Samajwadi Party
2004-2009: Left Front (CPI)
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« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2011, 08:09:55 AM »

1951-1957: Independent
1962: Republican Party of India (RPI)
1967-1971: Sawantra Party
1977: RPI
1980: Independent
1984: Telugeu Desam Party
1989: Independnet
1991-2009: Bharatiya Janata Party
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« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2011, 02:10:03 AM »

This is the sort of question that can't be easily answered because of the multitude of parties and coalitions and the fact that no party has a candidate in every constituency. I would have been for Nehru throughout his time; apart from his being a great man, the only opposition was C. Rajagopalachari's ridiculous Brahmin neoliberal outfit, for which of course I wouldn't be caught dead voting. I would have been for Indira in 1971, certainly, but just as certainly I would be for the Janata Party after the Emergency. The Emergency would have also ruled out the Communist Party of Indira, just as the war in 1971 ruled out the traitorous fifth column that called itself CPI(M). After the fall of Desai it's hard to say; certainly I would never vote for the BJP or their ilk. Hindutva holds no appeal to me, for obvious reasons. The fact that the Congress is a monarchist party bothers me, but I suppose I would end up voting for Congress and allies anyhow. It would depend on constituency, though.

Who would you vote for in Bengal?

If I lived in Delhi, I would vote for INC or perhaps the BJP. In 1999 I certainly might have.  In Bengal I would vote INC and after the split, Trinamool Congress. I would not under any circumstance vote for the CPM or any of the caste parties.
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« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2011, 08:54:06 AM »

Congress, most certainly.
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« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2011, 04:28:37 PM »

1951: Congress
1957: Congress
1962: Congress
1967: Congress

1971: NCO
1977: Congress for Democracy

1980: INC
1984: INC
1989: INC
1991: INC
1996: INC
1998: INC
1999: INC
2004: INC
2009: INC

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« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2022, 10:59:36 PM »

My mother's family as far as I know were Communists until sometime in the past 10 to 30 years - so I would be obliged to be a voter for the Communist Party of India and later on the Communist Party (Marxist) as that was the local Communist Party there - with my allegiance shifting to the Telugu Desam Party as the Communists declined if I was a member of my mother's family in India.

My father's family as far as I know were Telugu Desam Party supporters who presumably supported the Congress - although there were some Communists in my father's family. Some relative of mine married some grandson/daughter of some BJP politician a year ago.

The reason why I am stating how my family has supported instead of how I support because I would follow my family in what they support in India.

I wouldn't support the YSR Reddy Congress, a party which will lead to the destruction of my ancestral homeland - nor would I support the previous vehicle of the Reddys, the Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh. I also wouldn't support the Telangana Rashtra Samithi or as it is now known as the Bharat Rashtra Samithi as it is trying to go national.
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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2022, 01:13:27 AM »

1951-1962: INC
1967-71: Tactically against the INC
1977: Janta
1980: Tactically against the INC
1984: INC
1989: Tactically against the INC
1991: BJP(INC with hindsight)
1996-Present: BJP


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