WI: BJP victory in the Indian General election of 2004?

Many people had expected a BJP victory in 2004. However, half of Vajpayee's cabinet lost their seats and the INC won out. But what if the BJP had won?
 
Not a whole lot would change in terms of economic policy. Singh and Vajpayee largely agreed in regards to liberalizing the economy.

I strongly suspect that the BJP would lose the next election, as a corruption scandal would likely pop up in this period.
 

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Might get greater Indian involvement in Iraq. In OTL India and Pakistan had agreed to in principal join the Americans in post war Iraq, India actually told one of its divisions about deployment and Pakistan formations got as far as commecing pre-deployment training. In India it was delayed till after the election and Pakistan followed suit. By the time the dust was settled the bankrupcy of the American military in Iraq was clear and everyone backed away slowly.

Vajpaiyee had promised the US Ambd and would probably still have gone in which would have probably led Pakistan to join.
 
Vajpayee lost mostly due 'dirty politics' or coalition formation. However if they were better at forming the government, they may have had won.
 
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