BJP is world’s most important party: Wall Street Journal

The BJP is the world’s most important foreign political party and may be the least understood, according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal written by Walter Russell Mead.
“India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is, from the perspective of US national interests, the world’s most important foreign political party. It may also be the least understood,” the WSJ piece read.
The BJP is also on course to win again in 2024 after consecutive victories in 2014 and 2019, the publication said, adding that India is emerging as a major economic power and, along with Japan, the lynchpin of US strategy. Is. Indo-Pacific.

It added, “In the near future, the BJP will dominate a country without whose help US efforts to balance rising Chinese power will fail.” Author Mead believes that the BJP is underestimated because it operates out of a political and cultural history unfamiliar to most non-Indians. The Wall Street Journal piece states that the BJP’s electoral dominance is the beginning of a once obscure and marginal social movement of national renewal based on the efforts of generations of social thinkers and activists to chart a distinctive ‘Hindu path’ to modernization. Indicates success.