The original basis of the party lay among trade unions, socialist circles, and cooperative organizations and included conservative reformists, revolutionaries, and syndicalists.
The official party line is that they will opt for the group of conservative reformists, which includes Britain's governing Conservative Party.
And some libertarian and conservative reformist voices are unapologetically supporting the leak, if not the leaker.
Championed by Ennahdha, a conservative reformist party with Islamic roots and a clutch of dynamic female MPs and officials, the bill is expected to be passed by the end of 2016.
Modi, addressing a throng of roaring supporters in Vadodara, the western city where he won a parliamentary seat, pledged to move beyond a bitter campaign that pit traditionalists favoring a secular, liberal India against a disparate coalition of Hindu conservatives, reformists and young voters who flocked to the BJP.
More importantly, the shutdowns cooled the conservatives' reformist zeal and made them less committed to spending cuts.
Since 1979, the regime had, successively, rid itself of liberal nationalists, anti-clerical Islamists, Islamic leftists, pragmatic conservatives, reformist Islamists, and moderate reformists.
Even within the ruling coalition, according to Atieh Bahar, a Tehran consultancy, the factions include the conservative right, reformists, moderates, old leftists, new leftists and some liberal critics.
More conservative than reformists have put themselves forward as candidates, reports say.
"No involvement in the Tiananmen events, an image as a reformist and yet acceptability to both the conservative and reformist wings of the Communist Party".
It seems that gloomy days could be coming for Poland's Kaczynski brothers and their Law and Justice party (PiS), the UK Conservatives' ally from their European Conservatives and Reformists group.
