India loses its last left-wing government after five decades.

Read the bible some when I was younger, pretty sure they aren't christian, whatever they choose to call themselves.

the Indian National Congress is actually the only true center party out there capable of competiting the BJP

Im from California and i got banned for saying woman perverted the electoral college. Get off listnook if you want to nake an impact.  

This presumes a timeline of capitalism that for Marx was most strongly associated with the idea of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall (and generally the Labor Theory of Value), which is quire far from orthodox economics today. If the issue is distributional and not systemic/historic then advocacy for that transition at all is the political question.

You are mixing economic system (socialism - means of production own by public) vs ruling/governing system in capitalism.  Communism is suppose to continue to own the means of production. Thankfully india hasn't fallen to communists yet. 

It kinda is the case here in France, where the Communist Party often joined other left parties, such as the socialist or ecologist parties for some elections. They formed the NFP with other left parties during the legislative election of 2024 for exemple.

> No communists serve in any elected capacity in the US Federal Government, You're joking. Right?

Bullshit - it was Targeted socialist policies lifting people out of poverty that led to faster economic growth - not the free market drivel neoliberals keep spouting The main drivers were: Better access to basic services A lot of the fall in multidimensional poverty came from improvements in things like sanitation, cooking fuel, schooling, nutrition, electricity, housing, and bank accounts. NITI Aayog says all 12 MPI indicators improved, with particularly large falls in deprivation in sanitation and cooking fuel. Rural poverty fell faster This matters because India’s poverty was heavily rural. NITI Aayog reported rural multidimensional poverty falling from 32.59% to 19.28% between 2015–16 and 2019–21, compared with urban poverty falling from 8.65% to 5.27%. Targeted welfare schemes The Indian government expanded schemes aimed at food, health, sanitation, housing, cooking gas, bank accounts and direct transfers. The government’s own summary says nine flagship schemes improved healthcare, living conditions and financial inclusion, and helped drive the MPI reduction. Bank accounts, digital ID and direct transfers Jan Dhan bank accounts, Aadhaar digital ID and direct benefit transfers made it easier to send subsidies and welfare payments directly to poor households. The World Bank says Aadhaar helped direct more than $310 billion in transfers to beneficiaries and reduced leakage by sending benefits straight to bank accounts. Food subsidies, especially during Covid Food transfers through India’s public distribution system helped protect the poorest during the pandemic. An IMF working paper found that food transfers were instrumental in keeping extreme poverty low in 2020. These policies led to Fast economic growth India’s economy grew strongly over the period. The World Bank says India’s economy has nearly quadrupled in real terms since 2000, per-capita income has almost tripled, and this growth was accompanied by a major fall in extreme poverty and better infrastructure/basic services.

They are just rebranding of old UPA schemes. They still are very authoritarian and weakening democratic institutions in India

While the internet views around them are sketched, but man every party claims that their groundwork is insane, no party is even remotely close to them in this aspect. So, it ain't that they are good people, well that depends on public but they surely know how to win elections.

True, but realistically there isn't anything that Congress can do at this point. BJP/RSS spent decades building a decentralized, grassroots political network, based on a common civilizational identity that seems to at least on paper transcend linguistic, geographical, and caste boundaries. Congress meanwhile does not have anything of the sort and does not have the capability to create one and wait for decades while it takes hold. In the era of the internet, the decentralized nature of the BJP's underlying support base is able to outmaneuver and outmessage Congress which historically did not have a direct pipeline to the average person/peer group. BJP is also more business friendly which allows them to pull greater funding than Congress or Leftist parties. BJP also has several demographical advantages in that they're popular amongst the young, urban, middle-class, industrial population which is only going to grow further. Congress/INDIA bloc is meanwhile a loose coalition of ideologically distinct local parties that can easily be picked off as time goes on.

BJPs electoral wins in Kerala have been in urban areas right? CPI(M) meanwhile has historically been very rural focused. From the financial perspective, CPIM's donation base is not as wealthy as BJP's donation base, due to the more urban, middle class, and industrial voters that support the BJP (BJP can also fundraise from way more regions than CPIM across India now). I don't know if CPIM has the financial capability to continue competing with the BJP and Congress in the future.

BJP is already at center and in many states. The country would be in civil war if the had TMC like attitude.

they kept yapping about how the Centre always oppressed Dalits(low castes) and allmhow the Naxals were uplifiting them. Overlooking the fact as to how the Naxals would massacare your entire family if u said a single word against them.