INDIA 1980 21 Here, therefore, is a programme of unconcealed support to imperialism and opposition to socialism in world politics, support to big business and landlords in internal economy, together with full support to Hindu revivalism. Only on the basis of such a programme can the ruling classes create a bourgeois "alternative to the Congress (I)". This, however, has its inherent contradictions. The long-term interests of the bourgeoisie as a class require a foreign policy less committed to imperialism, and a socio-culiural approach in domestic field which is not so openly revivalist and is expressed in secular nationalist terms. The forces represented by the Congress (I) and other bourgeois parties therefore cannot go along with the BJP. The BJP, on the oiher hand ,represents that section of the bourgeoisie which came out against the authoritarianism of the Indira Congress and joined hands with other anti-authoritarian forces to defeat the Congress (I) and to form an alternative government headed by Morarji Desai. The coming bick to powci of the Congress headed by Indira Gandhi is therefore a challenge 'to all that the BJP leaders, along with the leaders of other bourgeois parties, had gained in earlier struggles but have now lost. The Congress (I), on the other hand,has set its mind to regain whatever it had lost at the hands of the leaders of the present BJP and its earlier allies. The two parties, therefore, cannot but carry on a bitter struggle between themselves unless they give up all that they have stood for and fought for. The BJP, however, cannot, in the very naturejofits programmatic approach, rally behind it that mass support which is required for the unity of the Left and democratic forces which alone can provide the real alternative to the Congress (I). * Social Scientist, Vol 8, No 2, September 1979. s Ibid. p 4. 1 Political resolution passed at the Bombay convention of BJP.