It was high time for Advani to leave as his leadership qualities had come under a scanner .I believe he was not doing his groundwork well he was not trying to address the issues beacuse of which BJP lost last general elections . BJP had established itself as party with a differnce but it was doing nothing different than congress rather at times explaining its actions with refernce to ccongress actions during NDA rule was the most disturbing trend to see. Leadership has never been one thing on which BJP depends its a party of organisation not of an individual so there is no need to panic but the new leader has to be one who has some standing with its Parivar and for this reason Even an outside chance of MODI should not be ruled out. Whatever is said about him he is a visionary leader a fact tht can be seen from what he has done for development of Gujrat . Hey guys incharge of BJP listen to the opppurtunity leave Advani and look forward mind u there was nthng like Advani or Vajpayee era
..or stay out of politics altogether as the BJP is defaming it as well. No other organisation in India talks of Akhand Bharat and does voluntary service during natural disasters and calamities. They should pull back all support they gave to the BJP and teach it a lesson for becoming the Bangladesh Janata Party.
It is a pity that suggestions are being made to corb the commemnts of venerated leader like Sudershan by BJP supporters. It is only proving what the RSS and lower level BJP leaders had been telling me during my posting as Hindustan Times correspondent in Kanpur from 2002 to 2003. The BJP only cares for the chair even if it the position of the President of the Bhartiya Janata Party. Had the party cared to listen to the under currents of revolt in their own cadres they would not have been taken in by the 'India Shining' campaign created and sustained by the likes of Kanchna Gupta. And taking it out on Prakash Karat is ludicrous to say the least.
You are giving too much weightage to a character who does not deserve to be in the place he is. If he is heading an organisation that wants to be a Rajguru, he has shown remarkable lack in clarity of thought vision and expression. When he himself is past Seventy and geneally good for nothing than walking in cheddy, what moral right does he have to criticise Vajapayee and Advani. His basic understanding of politics is next to nothing. He has political opinion and probably influence and weightage, but that has not obviously endowed him with insight into politics and hence the babble of this seventy plus year old adolescent. Fair, let him not be politically savy, but where is the ideological clarity. Does he talk anything other than women's dress or the supposedly great but stupidly cheated Indian Civilisation. If he has talked anything relevant and meaningful on its own, Please let me know. Otherwie, give him just the respcet that is due to an old fellow in cheddy blabbering in his morning/evenin walk.
there is no doubt that BJP is a party going through turmoil. The contradictions between the requirements of NDA politics and its own previously articulated positions on core issues remain the problem areas.Undoubtedly this shall be a painful phase and we may see some more of such frustrations coming out in the open. But what is more worrisome is lack of self restraint and clash of ego coming out of personal ambition, among the second rung leaders. This shall be another challenge for Mr Advani.
The BJP was a political pariah till it got a shot at Government through the trojan horse of the NDA and its merry band of freebooters.
Vajpayee had (before then)to face the ignominy of a 13 day government as no political party with any sense of decency was willing to associate with the BJP!
The BJP had to lump its hubris driven 'ideology' to get a shot at governance with strange bedfellows like George Fernandes who earlier wrecked the Janata Party over the dual membership issue (RSS links).The sordid sight of the PM and DPM (and recently chief ministers) grovelling at Nagpur did not bother the super patriots who had deep concern over 'dual membership'.
The Gujarat episode was the icing where the BJP called the bluff of the TDP and told them that they had no choice but to accept the governments unwillingness to follow Raj dharma (and to show Modi the door).
It is a sad joke to now suggest that the BJP was at the whims of its coalition partners.
It used the coalition partners to get into government and remain entrenched without a mandate!
The BJP had no role to play in the nuclearisation of India.Thier achievement is the overt nuclearisation of Pakistan.
