LET A NEW BJP EMERGE FROM THE ASHES.

What an excellent article “The knives are out in the BJP” in Rediff on 11th June 2009 which should be the Magna Carta of the BJP by Kanchan Gupta who is a true saffronite unlike Advani's opportunistic brigade. We all know that Sudheendra Kulkarni used to write for that scandal sheet BLITZ in which he used to abuse the BJS/BJP every week. He is a Commie Trojan horse imported into BJP to destroy it from within by overhauling LKA's image from Iron Man to a pseudo-secular one to placate the pseudo-secular NDA allies so that they readily endorse his bid for PMship. Result is a disaster for the Party for falling between 2 stools due to poor credibility of being neither fish nor fowl. Hasn't LKA heard of the Biblical saying "Unto thy own self be true”? As Hindutvadis Advani and his spin doctors ought to have held their belief in the Bhagavad Gita 3: 35 that says, “It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even though they may be faultily, than another's duties. Destruction in the course of performing one's own duty is better than engaging in another's duties, for to follow another's path is dangerous.” Trying to fool BJP sympathisers and foisting himself as future PM above all other considerations including the BJP’s future.

Despite calling Manmohan Singh a weak PM Advani has always displayed acute signs of insecurity as a person who has surrounded himself with ineffective and lazy sycophants like Naidu,Vasundhara Raje(sole architect of the Rajasthan defeat), Jaitly and Swaraj (ex-Haryana Vikas Party) and imposing them on the Party despite their ineffectiveness.

LKA had gradually become a LIABILITY after his Rath Yatra was over as his infirmities, insecurity being one of them, floated to the surface once in power. After the initial spurt in its popularity due to its being a newborn Party under LKA, fortunes of the BJP have been steadily declining as he had been replacing its old and trusted leadership with his toadies all over India as brilliantly brought out by Kanchan Gupta, a dedicated admirer of the saffron cause in his Rediff article of 11th June 2009.

Advani has now outlived his role after he had taken the BJP to new heights post the Babri Masjid episode and he should now gracefully retire. He has learnt nothing from the recent drubbing at the hustings as he has immediately appointed all his lackeys who are responsible for the latest thrashing to crucial posts instead of holding them accountable in order to continue to remote control the Party in the event of his having to step down.

He and his coterie have run out of contemporary ideas for rejuvenating the Party as they could not think beyond their almost desperate single point agenda of seeing him as the next PM for their own aggrandizement- no thoughts for the Party or the nation. Well, the voters saw through the charade and thought differently as they did not consider Advani to be PM material in whom they could repose their trust.

Let the present discord culminate into a final showdown between the power brokers browsing their time in air conditioned rooms and genuine workers/leaders with grassroots connection who should now be allowed to take charge of the Party replacing LKA and his lackeys. To avoid further mischief and steady decline of the Party, LKA and his useless cohorts must immediately be flushed out from the central committee down to the district levels of the country. Let the true leadership emerge from the ranks and enough of LKA's dirty maneuverings of imposing his selections onto hapless district, State and national units.

LKA's days are over and he must gracefully exit voluntarily without his parting kick of causing further permanent damage to BJP by placing his minions in key positions in the Party so that he can continue to rule by remote control in order to prove his indispensability.

If BJP has to split so be it instead of disintegrating under the weight of its Advani imposed spurious leaders who only care about their own selfish interests using the BJP as their spring board for fulfilling private ambitions.

The whole of existence is dynamic and the only constant is change. Advani and his satraps have had their place in the sun as long as they were contributing to the nation and Party’s health. Having run out of ideas they should now gracefully bow out and save the Party further erosion of its image of being a Party with a difference and converting it into a Party full of differences instead.