We are following history here, if you look back some decades, Indira Gandhi's congress seemed unbeatable aswell, and all the opposition got together to defeat her. THE PROBLEM: they tried to defeat her, made her look bad and slander and down play her but didn't provide alternatives to policy or governance, intact most non congress govts followed the policies made by congress govts (even the current one albeit changing names in their favour) HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF: Unnecessary alliances of opposition parties Glorious examples: AAP-Cong Delhi (AAP a anti congress party) regardless defeated BJP Almost eliminating them from the scene, RJD-JDU Bihar (JDU a party winning on anti corruption even joining with RJD who's supremo is convicted in fodder scam), SP-Cong (SP working on Lohia principles but giving rise to dynamic rule and aligning with congress who both Lohia was against) Reason: All parties have a only one thing on their minds, defeat modi, not BJP but MODI. They all are trying to defeat modi while BJP Defeats them. Solution: Parties need to stand firm with their roots and ideology, bring out original policies, say no to freebies as they only amount to debt to the state. AAP has the perfect opportunity to become a third biggie but they need atleast 3-4 states, where they have atleast a good number of seats in opposition, target the bjp bastions and capitalise on the collapse of congress in states and take their place as a opposition. Dont get in with Mamta or Nitish. Stay independent.

These guys should get their shit together first.

If UP polls go the BMC way, then the Rajya Sabha will also not stand in their way. I don't know what the reasons for the BJP swing were in Mumbai, but if in an urban area, they have done so well, then in a rural area, the initial impact of noteban #demo will be even more favourable for them.

As it is, they have been using the money bill route to push legislation through Rajya Sabha, but after UP, they will be uncontrolled.

Supreme court also has checks and balances

Why would you want a opposition just for the sake of it ? It sounds retarded.

And anyway the Indian public is the opposition. If the party screws up they will be voted out.

It wasn't that long ago that the Congress enjoyed this same kind of dominance. Nobody really seemed to mind then.

Anyway, elections have their ups and downs. The BJP isn't doing that well in other states it's been contesting in.

History repeats itself. When Nazi hysteria took over Germany all opposition parties, communists, republicans etc were first discredited and then eventually reduced to nothing. Same happened with Kammergericht ; it was infested with Nazis (SS to be exact) in a slow process and finally left with no credibility.