In U.P. there is internal dissension and serious external challenge. The upper caste Hindus are getting more and more disillusioned from it and are veering towards other parties. In Bihar it is merely a junior partner of the Samata and other parties. All its antics could not weaken the hold of Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav on Bihar politics. The U.P. and Bihar are major states in terms of Parliamentary seats and also of Muslim population.
Muslim votes become crucial for any party aspiring to come to power.
The BJP, in the absence of any kind of Hindu wave, cannot consolidate its Hindutva vote bank and has to fall upon other sections of voters. As shown above, it has never remained consistence in this matter and has always changed its political stance as its search for power is as important as anything else. It would be wrong to think that for the BJP, unlike other parties, ideological purity is supreme. Its slogan, 'Party with a difference', was meant to capture the imagination of those voters who had been disillusioned by other political parties. In fact the Jan Sangh or the BJP has never been different from other parties in the business of power politics, be it corruption or opportunism or vote bank politics.