A PM aspirant desperate for a safe seat, what an irony is this They (BJP) claim that there is a strong ‘Modi wave’ in the country. Paid channels comes out with their promising arithmetic’s, time and again, that the magic number is easily approachable. They have brought it up to 220+ and suggest ways and means how to cobble up the remaining by bringing every disgruntled, rejected, and tainted lot in to the party fold. Recently, more than a couple of very senior BJP leaders have come out in the open, expressing their resentment on what is going on in the BJP under its President Rajnath Singh. L.K. Advani is maintaining a stoic silence, watching all the tamashas going on in the party forums. Rajnath Singh, party President, is all out go to any extent to please his nominee, N. Modi and in that process he is taking cudgels from within. One of the decisions taken was to allow one Sriramulu from Karnataka who was earlier alleged to be much linked with the Bellary Reddy brothers who brought enough discredit to the party in the iron ore mining scam in which the BJP govt., formed for the first time in southern India, in Karnataka, under B.S. Yedyurappa, had to go. Yedyurappa later though quit from the party and formed his own out-fit but couldn’t click well before the Congress sweep in the state, is now back in BJP (courtesy N. Modi who desperately want numbers by hook or by crook). Now, Yedyurappa got even Lok Sabha ticket to contest from his home turf Shimoga. Seeing that opportunity, Sriramulu too showed willingness to come back to BJP fold again, which was yielded by Rajnath Singh on which Leader of opposition BJP in Lok Sabha, Smt. Sushma Swaraj openly asked tough questions which is still simmering, though Swaraj, just to save the party’s face at an election time, is trying to beat out the fire created by herself. Again, another very senior leader, almost equal to L.K. Advani and a strong contestant for PM post, Prof. M.M. Joshi is now in full form to take on the party leadership over the issue of spreading news in Media that N. Modi would fight from M.M. Joshi’s home turf, Varanasi. Earlier, Aravind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party thrown up a challenge to fight against Modi in case he fight from Varanasi. Thereafter, Kejriwal even took the daring step of going to the Modi stronghold, Gujarat, to see for him the Gujarat model so passionately propagated by Modi as a vehicle for capturing power at the centre. What happened there is evident from Kejri’s own statement that within three days, he and his party men were threatened to arrest five times. Kejriwal even requested time to Modi to have a one to one discussion on certain vital issues but Modi doesn’t even showed the courtesy to give him some time. Finally when Kejriwal took out a procession in Ahmadabad, it was tough time for the Gujarat police to control the situation. FIRs are now filed against him and the party for violation of Model Code of Conduct. This is the irony of the BJP that says there is wave everywhere in India to form NDA govt. under prime ministership of N. Modi. The reality is that no senior leader in U.P. is willing to part with their safe seats for Modi. Lalji Tandon, M.P. from Lucknow is quite candid that no one can take his seat. M.M. Joshi admitted that he started his campaigning from Varanasi, though Modi brigade too started their own campaign and it would be a difficult situation for BJP if Varanasi is not given to Modi. Dissent is brewing in BJP from other places as well. Only the first list is out and that were all the pocket burrows of most of the veterans in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and others. Though the Congress too brought out its first list, one of the set-backs it suffered was in the shifting of side by a former IAS retiree from M.P. and contestant from Bhind-Morena, Bhagirath Prasad to the BJP. Last time he lost with a slender margin, therefore, he thought shifting loyalty would bring good luck to him. It is the time one can find how much loyalty the party workers/so called strong leaders maintain. He was a Congress loyalist all through and he got the ticket too, but, all that long years of loyalty is thrown to the wind for the crumbs thrown by the BJP. Ms. Purandeswari, till recently a minister in UPA-II, shifted to the BJP in Andhra Pradesh seeing the strong discontentment, post bifurcation of A.P. and creation of Telangana and Seemandhra. What kind of fate the Congress is going to have from that state is to be seen now? Coming back to the main question: why not a safe seat made available to the so called PM nominee of the BJP? What is the problem? One feel Satyavratha Chaturvedi of the Congress has made it very clear that the BJP is now gone out of control of its own mainline leaders and is taken over by some external forces. RSS can be attributed as the main such force, as it is RSS who bulldozed all others to make Modi as the PM nominee. The disenchantment shown by senior leader L.K. Advani thereon is well known. He is hawkish and only looking for chance to come out scathingly against all that is going wrong in the party, built brick by brick through his blood and sweat for last many years in which he took lot of brick bats from its opponents. Whenever he get an opportunity, he would vent out his hurt feeling, as no one is consulting his opinion over whatever wrong decisions are being made by the party leadership, be it allowing Yedyurappa or Sriramulu in Karnataka to join BJP and particularly having been got tainted in the corruption, Yeddy got ticket from Shimoga, which would definitely bring ill-luck to BJP as the Congress would go full hog this time to get him defeated there. Now, the subsequent lists of both the BJP as well as the Congress are awaited. So far, the Congress has given tickets to clean candidates and that too 35% of them under the age group of 50-52 which is a good sign that the young candidates are given preference priority as per the wish of its young scion Rahul Gandhi. It is always better to allow the disgruntled, tainted, old lots to resign and take shelter under other party. So far, the BJP accommodated most of them, though it is the BJP which is making all the hue and cry against corruption by Congress. If the BJP is sincere in what they preach, they should not allow such tainted, corrupt old guards rejected by the Congress in their fold. That only shows their duplicity and desperation to snatch power and then engage in the same corrupt practices they accused against the Congress. Of late, discontentment is brewing in AAP as well. BJP and the ruling Congress too are desperate to block the path of AAP but BJP leader Arun Jaitley see some hidden game plan between AAP and Congress parties to stop the NDA from coming to power under Modi. About things going on in the third front or federal front, the less said the better, as everything is going ‘ulta-pulta’ in the late Jespal Bhatti’s language
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:04:58 +0000
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015