Dehradun, April 30 -- Success or lack of it in the just concluded assembly polls will help parties determine the changes required to remain relevant in present day politics. At the present, parties mostly project their ideology based on their formative structure but, as they go forward, they will feel the need to respond to the electoral choices made by the public.
The Samajwadi Party, for instance, began as a hardcore socialist organisation that sought to provide social justice to underserved 'backward sections' identified by castes. With the implementation of the Mandal Commission report, socialism remains only in name and caste dominates. The dominant among the Backward Castes turned it into what it is now, more or less a family enterpr...