Voters, indeed, increasingly see through such cynical toying with ethnic and religious divisions, for it is clear that prompt arrest and prosecution of those who instigated the Godhra incident would have brought independent voters flocking to the BJP. The party has squandered that opportunity.
Mais plutôt que d'encourager ces vertus civiques (et économiques), le Parti nationaliste hindou (BJP) au pouvoir utilise le spectre des émeutes intercommunautaires à des fins électorales.