The left right left of political identification in India

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The left right left of poltical identification in India

                                       :Yashwant Singh Tanwer

We as society are more divided than we ever were by the political spectrum we affiliate ourselves with. We often see others and ourselves as well identifying as a right-wing nationalist or a left-wing ideologue but what do we mean when we say right-wing or left-wing? Are these mere political ideologies or a strict division between social identities based on class or region or race or gender?

To start with we must clearly comprehend what is right, left and centre with respect to our nation.
Term Right and left wing were coined in French assembly around revolutionary era in 1789, where it referred to the "seating" of royalists and anti-royalists in the assembly, though it arouse in late 18th century, the idea blew worldwide with emergence of Marxism in the 19th century and since then the arrangement of positions along the right-left axis from progressive to reactionary, or conservative to liberal, or communist to fascist, or socialist to capitalist, or Democrat to republican has been gradually complex.

Where most of the countries identify their political spectrum with respect to economic ideas, India on the other hand follows a mixture of religious and economic political spectrum and that's why political leaning identification in India is very complex. In India, when we look through the prism of economic idea based politics there is not a single capitalist party to be found. There was one party namely "swatantra party" formed by rajaji in 1960 which openly professed capitalism but is now defunct and if we go by the universal identification logic and put it in India's perspective we do not have a single right wing party in our entire nation and all the parties are either left-leaning or hardcore communist. Though when we talk about religious right-left wing we can name some political representatives. In religious political spectrum also we have five types
A. Left wing
B. Left leaning
C. Centre
D. Right leaning
E. Right wing
In religious polity, parties which represent a certain religion are the right wing association. Now the leading political parties I.e. the BJP is right leaning in terms of religion based polity but is socialist in terms of economic idea based politics and the INC is left leaning in terms of religion based politics and socialist. That means though they are at the opposite ends when we talk about religious politics but are at consensus as far as the economic politics is concerned. The only real hard core right political parties are AIMIM and Muslim League.