Political parties in India and in general across countries are formed either on certain ideology or with some social-economic agenda or based on certain goal or for some specific purpose or on religious-caste lines. The inception of these parties are mostly on right memorandums and their founders always want to stick with it. Since India is a big country and hugely populated, these political parties want emerging and existing people from political fraternity to join them, take it forward along, but the representations within political parties on a broader level dilutes the essence and its ideology, agenda, goal and purpose. Its the magnetism of power, money and position which overshadows everything and convenience takes over their core political agenda and its evident that even two extreme ideology join each other. There are no surprises when it comes to acquisitive exchange of power and position, even who fought elections against each other, join hands. There are also evident cases where a party fighting election against the one in which a member of that party was an incumbent minister.
The social fabric of India is mainly based on religion, language and caste also there is now a new distinction in society on economic level where these parties carry no ideologies, rather they exploit the social-economic fabric at micro and broad levels to grab power and position.
There are seven national parties and about 50 odd regional/state parties in India. The history has got its evidence that the party at locus tends to attract members of non-ideological parties converge to find their suitable point of match with political justifications. The convenience overcomes ideology.
There is no harm in politicians wanting to be near post and positions, ultimately the essence of the profession itself is to service the citizens which can only be done by being in business and while doing so they first have to leave the high grounds of ideology. I personally have not witnessed any political party working on its main ideology ever since I started following politics.
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