2021 has been a bad year for the major political parties in India. Out of a total of 5 State elections, both the BJP and Congress lost three to local parties i.e. TMC in West Bengal, AIADMK in Tamil Nadu and CPI(M) in Kerala.
On a surface level, the phrase “If you are not a socialist when you are young, you have no heart and if you are not a capitalist when you are old, you have no brain” makes sense but a 1984 interview by an ex-KGB spy might state otherwise.