“Better is one's own dharma, though imperfectly performed, than the dharma of another well performed. Better is death in the doing of one's own dharma: the dharma of another is fraught with peril”- Bhagavad Gita 3:35.
This is the mantra that BJP needs to follow if it wants to rule India with its own majority without help of disparate elements that constitute the NDA who are all various shades of "pseudo-secularists". Just look at Chandrababu Naidu or Mamatha Banerjee or even Karunanidhi. The NDA was formed as Vajpayee was in a hurry to become PM as he was getting old. How long can one remain in the opposition? It is a trying and tiring job. But Vajpayee was a secularist who pretended to be a Hindutvadi, whereas Advani is just the opposite. The result of the so-called Common Minimum Programme of the NDA meant BJP jettisoning all its core fundamentals that had made it the largest party in the first place which compelled the others in the NDA to gravitate to it for sharing power conveniently forgetting that the BJP was a "communal outfit". The result was that the BJP got washed out in the very next elections-despite "India Shining" as its own supporters had abandoned it or did not go out to vote on voting day out of sheer disgust.
Advani's biggest blunder is that he now wants to become another Vajpayee as he too is very old(0ver 80). Look at Narendra Modi who has remained true to his "Dharma" despite the whole world being against him, including the Media, members of the NDA abusing him,the USA canceling his Visa and even some within the BJP disavowing him. And what a victory he fashioned out of this "total" rejection! All because we Indians don't like hypocrites which Modi was not. Supporters and opposers know what Modi or Advani are.
So why should Advani pretend to be someone else just to please the Media who want to dictate how a leader should behave as per their biased agenda? Biased not because of their convictions alone but because many of them march to a foreign tune that does not like a strong India. I am afraid to say that a large number of our members of the Fourth Estate are Fifth Columnists. That is why the "Jinnah was a secularist" speech made in his Pakistan visit boomeranged on Advani, even though he was absolutely right. Jinnah was more secular than that hypocrite J.L. Nehru who was a genuine fraud in all aspects.
The Media hype on Advani's Pakistan speech even fooled the RSS as Advani did not do a proper follow through by sticking to his guns and pressing home the point. That he was telling the Pakistanis on Pakistani soil that their Father of the Nation was purely secular and the far distance that they had deviated from his ideal. Jinnah gave the call for Two Nations many years after Gandhi had roused Muslim separateness through his Khilafat movement in the late Twenties. Rather, Advani caved in because he eyeing the vacuum that Vajpayee's imminent retirement would cause. In the similar circumstances how would Sardar Patel have behaved? That's the question that Advani should have asked himself after having donned the late Sardar's mantle as the Louha Purush.
Trying to be a different person to different people results in appearing to be a dishonest person who in addition appears to be someone without any convictions. Can people repose implicit faith on anyone to run India who is found wanting in strong beliefs? Even if such a person were to become the PM, it would only fulfill his own personal ambitions but not the country's for which Advani the thorough nationalist and patriot had joined the RSS and then politics in the first place.
Any form of prevarication offends the admirer but does not endear the detractor. The profit driven Media is always miserably wrong-look at their premeditated Exit Polls, talk shows & editorials. Therefore,let Advani/BJP be true to themselves without being apologetic about Hindutva at any time in thought word and deed yet campaign on bread and butter issues. This way the supporter continues to reposes trust knowing fully well that they are in safe hands of patriots who will not betray them for power at any time while others turn voters being reassured that even if the BJP believes in Hindutva it will not sacrifice good governance for the sake of pre-election tokenism alone as it so glaring does whenever elections are due, either directly or through the VHP and/or Bajrang Dal and other Sangh outfits to prime the Hindutva adherent. If the BJP remains true to itself without trying to dilute its core issues during normal times, there wont be any need to fall back on the surrogates of the Parivar who can bluntly indulge in the Hindutva agendas without inviting the Election Commission's ire as they do not stand for elections and yet channel Hindu votes to the BJP. Such subterfuges do not work any more but rather prove to be counter productive.
Can someone please send this to Advani as I don't have his Email ID?
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