Sunday, August 23, 2009

BJP Heading Towards Dark Ages?

This one is a quick one.
Jinnah left Indian shores on 14th August 1947, but his ghost still haunts Ashoka Road in New Delhi. Thats where the BJP National Head Quarter is located.
In 2005, Advani on his 'memorable' trip to Pakistan praised Jinnah for being a visionary and paid the price by losing his post of Party President. Jaswant Singh on his Academic pursuit ended up writing an entire book on Jinnah and in this process lost the membership of the party with which he was associated for almost 3 decades.
I wont go into the analysis of Jinnah's role in Partition, Jaswant Singh's view point and Congress's reaction to the book. I just wish to convey my feeling of shock and irritation to the expulsion of Jaswant Singh from BJP.
A Political Party which throws out senior people from its party just because he wrote a book on controversial issue, is surely looking down the dumps. It has lost its path and has forgotten its priorities.
If BJP has to reinvent itself, it has to rise above personal attacks, factionalism and has to look at youth. There is no way this ideology can help them in relating to 70% of population which is below the age of 35...
Continuing with yesterday's post... BJP listed down the following reasons for their defeat in Lok Sabha elections.. Neither does the list looks complete nor impactful. What measures are being taken??

Lack of unity among party leaders.: The whole world knows that
Failure to connect with youth.: Tried their best through social media
BJP failed to corner the Congress on 26/11. Instead the party let the Congress and the media divert the issue and bring in to Kandhar issue.: Terrorism cannot be politicised
Party's election slogans failed.: Bhay Ho song was so lame!
Varun Gandhi's hate speech also led to BJP debacle.: High Time they realise it. He is still a BJP MP and the only 'young' leader
Projection of Narendra Modi as the future prime minister damaged the party's prospects.: Is he not the next PM candidate anyways
Campaign should have been more meticulous, synchronised and effective.: A very general statement
Personal attack on Manmohan Singh did not go well with people.: This is because he counterattacked agressively
In Punjab the alliance partner’s attitude affected the performance of National Democratic Alliance.: Blaming others!! Your own sitting MPs like Vinod Khanna lost..
In Delhi the BJP lost the game even before it was played. : They can't win a seat in next 10 years..No leaders at all
In Haryana party failed to assess the popular mood.: wt#?
Break up of alliance in Orissa at the 11th hour left the party unawares.:What happened to the tall claims of going single?

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