Elegy for the BJP

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Tavleen Singh Tags : tavleensingh, column Posted: Sunday , Oct 25, 2009 at 0303 hrs

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Last week’s election results confirm that the political map of India is radically changed. There is only one political party left on the national landscape because the Bharatiya Janata Party can now be officially declared dead. It has been committing slow suicide since its defeat in the 2004 general election but it managed to stay alive on one man’s hope that he would one day become Prime Minister. This created a false sense of vitality.

But, when Shri Lal Krishna Advani gave up this hope after the party’s second defeat last May, the BJP was left in the hands of a president who put the party out of its suffering by becoming a guillotine. If Rajnath Singh will be remembered at all by history, he will be remembered as the BJP’s executioner. Whoever appointed this mediocre, provincial politician to such high office could not have anticipated this hidden talent.

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In recent months after Shri Advani went into semi-retirement, the BJP president did extraordinary damage to the party’s already crumbling structure. He dismissed regional leaders with proven abilities, promoted scum, took reckless decisions, permitted high corruption and took not one step that brought the BJP closer to revival or hope. There are now so many crooks in the upper echelons of the BJP that Delhi abounds with stories of a commercial transaction over the Haryana election. According to the political grapevine the BJP resorted to match-fixing to lose in Haryana so that the business interests of some important people would not be hurt by a change in government.

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Hindutva has run its courseBy: Khalid Anwar | 29-Oct-2009 Reply | Forward This is nothing but a sorrowful rant from a hardcore BJP supporter. Ms Tavleen should realise that like all fundamentalist organisations, political or otherwise, have their shelf lives. BJP has reached its expiry date. Feeding Hindus with a constant barrage of anti-muslim diet has run its course. Hindus have realised that they want Sadak, Bijli, Paani like all other communities of India and a constant diet of anti-muslimism as a political tool has caused diaorrhea in many circles. Lastly I dont understand this tear-shedding by the liberal Hindus wanting the BJP to be a strong opposition, even while criticising when it was in Power. Isnt it celebration time folks?

Elegy for BJPBy: shan | 27-Oct-2009 Reply | Forward I am not a BJP supporter but it is unwise to write BJP's obituary now. It is only if they fare badly in Gujarat, MP, Karnataka etc that they can be considered to be in decline.Instead of writing about Congress or the BJP every week, I wish Tavleen would take on the Maoist sympathisers like Arundhati Roy, Medha Phadkar, Gautam Navlakha, Sandeep Pandey and a whole lot of others. These Maoist sympathisers are causing India immense peril by brainwashing the uninformed tribals into believing that Maoists are the protectors of the downtrodden.

A Very Poor Review !By: Aniyan | 27-Oct-2009 Reply | Forward The writer appears to be maintaining a degree of animosity towards the BJP, India's main Opposition party. If she has the courage to say that BJP, with over 116 elected members in Parliament in the election recently held, as dead, there is certainly something wrong with this writer. It is the polarisation of votes; not the growth of Congress that results in their winning. A Very poor survey by Tavleen !! Not worth reading it.

UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE HAS SAIDBy: Kesavan | 27-Oct-2009 Reply | Forward Hello you dumb, you are twisting what she has stated. What she has said is that only BJP's chances of once again coming to power at the Centre are dead for now. Moreover, understand that the BJP also wins elections only by polarisation of voters and not the other way around.

BJP-THE MASTER OF DOUBLE SPEAKBy: Kesavan | 27-Oct-2009 Reply | Forward BJP's double speak and double standards stands are quite evident from the numerous U turns they took on and off power. Right from the economic policy of "Swadeshi" as an opposition and "Videshi" in power. They have made countless somersaults difficult to factor in. They talk against globalisation and FDIs and talked about the virtues of Gandhian socialism as an opposition, but once in power, they were more neo-liberal than even the Congress was and had the arrogance to symbolize India as shining. Hindutva is an issue they raise in an "on" and "off" mode and they sacrifice it at the altar of seeking the Office of profit in the form of courting allies who they target as psuedo-secular, but with whom they are not ashamed to align with to share the spoils of Office. On the Ram Temple issue on which they made a big noise, their frequent flip-flops invoked derision even from their hardcore supporters.

Calling Kettle Black?By: Rajesh Kaul | 12-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward If BJP was wrong in policy but right in implementation, must it be blamed for U turn or acknowledged for the actual job done? Shining India is denied only by those who want to use it for BJP bashing and refuse to accept the progress made by India. Shame lies with those who aligned with BJP today and Congress tomorrow to prove that only being in power matters. If you dont open your mind, others may be tempted to address you the same way as you did to your previous commentator.

Focus the real national issues, do not worry about the political parties.By: Poor citizen | 26-Oct-2009 Reply | Forward Media is enjoying the electroral dabacle of BJP in the assembly elections.Most of the media leave no stone unturned in praising the leaders of the Parivar Party. Our motherland, is in deep bad-uck, that its media donot like to focus on the burnig issues of the nation. The price rise,organised corruption, farmers, naxal problems, are being ignored by the so-called fourth pillar of democracy. They are running after praising some personalities. The media seems to be blind in bring out the biggest ever scam of independence india, i.e.2G Spectrum scam. They dare not to highlight the failure of the govt in dealing foreign and defence matters, including the Chinese incursion to Indian territory. Do not worry for BJP or its allies. Your profession is live only because of BJP or such like minded political forces, who are trying to maintain the balance in the system. Otherwise, by this time India would have become a autocratic nation of a parivar party, whom you most like to praise all the time.

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