PROGRESS OF INDIAN NATIONALISM UNSTOPPABLE. BUT…….

Unless the BJP shoots itself in the foot again it is unstoppable. Notice that even in J&K where the BJP as been a fringe player all this while it is "BJP versus the rest (read pseudo-secular)". The BJP should try to get back its "Party with a difference" stance instead of blindly following Advani's mantra of becoming a clone of the Congress as he is in a terrible hurry to become the next PM. He should believe that "what is allotted cannot be blotted". If he is destined to be PM he will be PM if not no power on earth or beyond can make him the PM. His mantra is that the BJP has to occupy the Congress space as vacuum cannot exist in nature. But it has to be done in a unique manner not by becoming a clone of a discredited, despotic and corrupt dispensation of sycophants. Advani should reinvent himself as a true leader who elects future leaders from the bottom up instead of imposing his selections from the top, as like everything in life, change is the only constant, even in a political party. Example the debacle in Rajasthan with Ms Raje who is not even a Rajasthani.

It is the grassroots that keep in touch with the masses/voters not the leaders who are constantly living in their Ivory towers thanks to the free media coverage they are getting all the time. Pontification does not get votes for the party but grassroots contact and hard work there 365 days a year does. Learn from the Left in West Bengal the only cadre based group in India today, a position the BJP forsook to become another mass based party like the Congress.

You will need to study the Bengal phenomenon as to why the Commies-read CPM and not the CPI which is virtually non-existent anywhere-have been ruling a single State for over 3 decades. One will have to see how seriously the Left takes being in power forever takes. For them it is a 24x7x365 days job. They even know who votes for whom in West Bengal so that they can disenfranchise those whom they know vote for opposition parties. They rig elections, jam polling booths, threaten and chase away observers of other parties and before that they even threaten opposition candidates from filing their nominations so that the Left candidates can "win" unopposed.

But all this takes dedication of the highest order unlike polluted "Mass based" parties of “Aya Rams and Gaya Rams” (here today gone tomorrow) who raise emotive issues just three months before any election hoping to cash in on voter cupidity so that they can relax for the balance 4 years and 9 months!

You can't keep fooling the people perpetually with only emotive issues. You have to work on the ground throughout the year with dedicated cadre who will ensure victory for their party and not depend on the voters being swayed by electoral speeches/rhetoric of their so-called national or state leaders. In such a scenario such a party can do well only if its opponents have become hate objects triggering a negative vote. I am talking of a positive vote where people vote FOR a party and not AGAINST another. That’s where Lal Kishenchand Advani’s success lay after which he had wrongly hogged kudos for being a formidable organizer. That is why he is such a failure now.

As long as an irrational and immature Mamata Banerji remains the sole alternative to the Left in Bengal, the Left rule will continue in perpetuity. Due to the strategic blunders of the impatient Vajpayee-Advani duo, the BJP today is non-existent in West Bengal after the local unit was tied to Mamata’s sari pallu like a parasite that had no legs (roots) of its own to stand on.