Thread by @go_mohan

The unlikely similarity between BJP and the Tata Group

The Elections are over and the results are out. Now is the time for government formation. This is the time to to speculate about the leaders likely to be part of Modi's cabinet. 1/n

While thinking about it, it struck me , the uncanny similarity between BJP and the Tata Group.

Despite 100s of companies, of which nearly 30 are listed , Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) towers over all others and accounts for more than 3/4ths of the valuation of the group. 2/n

Narendra Modi is like TCS. Just like TCS came from nowhere , to become the dominant and most valuable company in the group, Narendra Modi started as a humble karyakarta , became CM and now towers over not just the party but the country.3/n

A distant second to TCS but that is a darling of the stock investors is Titan . Amit Shah, the party president, is like Titan , young and dynamic. over.4/n

Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj who were once leader of BJP in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha are like Tata Motors and Tata Steel. Their sickness does not give them the energy to lead from the front. Their salad days are over.5/n

Rajnath Singh, though a Home Minister and a past BJP President is like Tata Power, with power only in name.

All the rest of the leaders are like the rest of the Tata companies , who serve their own small customer base but do not count for much. 6/n

Another similarity is that just like the listed Tata cos are controlled by Tata Sons, a holding company, BJP has a parent organisation , RSS . Just like the relationship between RSS and BJP is mysterious, the relationship between Tata Sons and the Tata companies is unknown 7/n

Both BJP and the Tata Group suffer from a vacuum of talent. The No.1s are masking a lot of their inadequacies and gaps.
The challenge for BJP is to find its next Modi and for the Tata Group to find its next TCS.8/n

Note : Please treat the above analogy as just a figment of an idle analyst's imagination n/n