Though dead for 55 years Nehru is part of these elections.

"A splinter group of the Janata Party that split in 1980, the BJP was formed to resurrect the Bharatiya Jana Sangh which had merged in Janata Party in 1977. In 1984 when the Congress won 415 seats, the BJP bagged just 2. Three decades later in 2014, the fortunes reversed. The BJP rose from 2 to 282 while the Congress was reduced from 415 to mere 44." One reason is that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a very good speaker. Naturally, to please a crowd, Modi has a basic formula for speeches which gets the audience involved. Modi has a great knack for devising acronyms to label his schemes or to denounce his opponents and "there is a clear sense with PM Modi of him instinctively drawing on this skill, less for himself, but to help his audience to remember his words." Some acronyms, like 'radar' which stands for 'radio detection and ranging', have become so familiar that most people would not know its full form. Modi described the Congress as OROP, which meant Only Rahul and Priyanka, which was answered with ODOMOS by the Congress, meaning Overdose of Only Modi, Only Shah. The BJP also attacks India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, whose descendant, Rahul Gandhi is the President of the Congress. Both Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi and grandson Rajiv Gandhi were assassinated, so bad-mouthing them maybe considered bad form and may backfire. Shashi Tharoor, who was once Under Secretary General at the United Nations, explained that the Security Council seat was not Nehru's to give. Nehru became prime minister after more than a thousand years of occupation by foreign invaders, first by the Muslims and then by the British. Economist Utsa Patnaik has calculated that the British looted $45 trillion from India over about 200 years, leaving the country impoverished and bankrupt. Nehru created the nation of India and established many institutions which function to this day. Perhaps, Nehru's greatest achievement was that, while Pakistan, which became independent at the same time, was soon taken over by its army which still controls all power, India remains a democracy to this day. Journalist R Sardesai enumerated 10 reasons why these elections are Modi's to lose. However, for all his bombast, Modi is not all that different from the Congress, relying on a rash of handouts, from Rs 6,000 in cash to farmers to free gas and electricity connections for the rural poor to Mudra loans to young people to start businesses, resulting in non-performing assets at banks amounting to Rs 73 billion. These have been partly financed by enormous taxes on petroleum products, taking advantage of low prices of crude oil. That is why Modi is having to trash Nehru who died 55 years ago, in 1964. Nehru remains silent. His actions speak for him.