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    • Pratap Bhanu Mehta Tags : break-up of the BJD-BJP alliance Posted: Tuesday , Mar 10, 2009 at 0044 hrs

    BJD’s walking out diminishes Advani’s authority further. The BJD can still come back to the BJP post poll. But the truth is that Advani’s reputation as a figure of conciliation and charisma has taken a beating. While Vajpayee attracted allies and confidence, even in difficult times, Advani will find it difficult to keep the flock together. The BJP is in serious crisis. But it is by no means out. It needs to hunker down.

    The writer is president, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi

    express@expressindia.com

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    Pratap Mehta's columnBy: Venkatesh | 12-Mar-2009 Reply | Forward Generally, Mr Mehta's analyses is pretty unbiased and objective. I dont agree with all the conclusions. But the adjectives used for the BJP are uncalled for. I find his concept of secularism very wierd. A hindu saint gets shot with Ak47 and is widely known that is an act of the church and you expect no retaliation. The church can abuse hinduism and hindus need to watch this go on is it. Is this the idea of Mr mehta's morality.
    bhubaneswarBy: shurkumishra | 11-Mar-2009 Reply | Forward dear sir,About a year ago, i visited orissa and had the oppertunity to listen to a political discussion held in a small town in western orissa.the consensus was that bjp hurried into an alliance with different regional parties to grab power. had it decided to sit in opposition in 1999, it would have got absolute majority in next general election. however for the love of of power it got itself engaged to oppertinistic alliance or which it has lost its identity in many states like orissa. hope the party will learn from its mistakes and should fight the next election alone.it should not hesitate to take the help sadhus and sanths and other religeous leaders to fight the election.
    Reform our systemBy: Manojk | 11-Mar-2009 Reply | Forward As usual, Mr. Mehta us brilliant in his analysis of the situation. I wonder if 5% of our journalists are as smart as Mr. Mehta, where would be the state of our press and how it could affect the state of our nation. We have a serious need to introspect our parliamentary system and nomination of candidates by parties. We need to separate the three branches of government: executive, legislature and judiciary and elect executive and legislature separately and have a system of checks and balances by one branch against the other. Let us have primary system where candidates are not appointed by central committees. Let the voters inclined towards a party select the candidate they want to represent their party in their constituency and let all the primary winners from each party (with at least 10% of total primary vote) contest an election. Let us elect the executive separately and give legislature powers to check the executive. We will become a stronger country.
    Regionalism and its dogma!By: Ramesh K. | 10-Mar-2009 Reply | Forward Regionalism is a thing of the past. It existed in colonial times, when Punjabis were Punjabis, and Gujaratis were Gujaratis. There was no inter-community relationship. This was also the case down south, when there was no distinction between Tamils, Telgus, Keralites or Kannadas, they were all commonly grouped as Madrasis. People in UP or Bihar were non-existent, but commonly associated as Hindis, and Bengalis have remained Bengalis anyway. Congress party was a unifying force, until it started splitting up into various factional congresses because of leadership fracas. The BJP on the other hand was a new party, which too seems to have gone astray from its ideology, and hence its characteristics are no different from the Congress party, and is doomed to failure, though it still does not have dynastic politics, but not for long. God Save India from such parties and their leadership.
    BJP as National PartyBy: Parameswaran M.K. | 10-Mar-2009 Reply | Forward As a national party, BJP should not depend on regional parties .First build up a cadre base and then think about contesting election. BJP should wait till such time when it would have bargain capacity with other regional parties for seat adjustments. It should not loose its national character for the sake of one or two seats.
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