An old friend whose family had been traditionally
Congress voters had this to tell me this morning: “We have decided to vote for
the BJP this time only because Narendra Modi would be anointed the Party’s
prime ministerial candidate. Apart from the Congress revealing itself to be
just a criminal syndicate which provides a platform for any candidate from any
party despite undesirable antecedents as long he has chances of winning an
election, Modi’s clear and unambiguous stance on many things and his excellent
track record as Gujarat Chief Minister in every facet of governance has
convinced me that Modi is India’s sole answer to all its immediate problems.”
He then sighed,”Poor BJP and Narendra Modi. I don’t think
the BJP itself wants Modi as the next prime minister of India. Just look at who
all are stacked up against him. His own party stalwart L.K.Advani is continuing
to sabotage his chances along with trouble makers like a non-entity like an
over the hill actor Shatrughan Sinha* and Advani’s ‘girlfriend’( his words not
mine, reflecting what many think but may not utter) Sushma Swaraj what they are
upto. Then you have Shivraj Singh Chouhan who no one outside Madhya Pradesh has
heard of. He has brandished thousands of posters all over his state without
Modi’s face just to highlight he is not for Modi as PM despite Modi being the
BJP’s most well-known poster boy today. With the desperate Congress party and
their retainers in the media gunning for Modi using every government agency to
implicate him for any false or otherwise irregularity and a conniving media
playing it up, was it not the time for the BJP to show an united face against
such an onslaught? The message people like me are getting is that the BJP has
more enemies within it than outside. Poor Modi, this reckless coterie of Advani
instigated self-destructive forces are working to a plan to ensure that the BJP
doesn’t get more than 100 Lok Sabha seats in the next elections so that they can
gleefully point towards their self-fulfilling prophecy of ‘See we told you Modi
would be a liability compared to Advaniji’.
“The Indian electorate is acutely allergic to any
squabbling party or combines where the chain of command is amorphous and
subject to constant challenge from within. They want to get along with their
day to day lives after a stable government is sworn in rather than a chaotic
and bickering group disrupting smooth governance every now and then. This is
the very reason why the electorate has been rejecting the “Khichri” governments
after the bitter lessons they have learnt from earlier experience. Now the
danger lies in the fact that despite the dismal performance of the Congress-UPA
on every front, they would appear to be atleast a combine where bickering would
be absent as its high command has a vice like grip on the Congress mob. No
amount of screaming that Congress is a dynasty set up for the Nehru-Gandhi clan
to keep looting India and Sonia Gandhi’s Italian origins is going to wash when
it comes to choosing a cohesive unit over a fractious one.
"There are few things the BJP should realize. India is still majorly feudal due to which a ‘royal’
family still finds tremendous attraction across the country. Secondly, due to the popular perception that the
loot in millions of crores is from the Central government's funds and not
directly from anyone’s pockets, most Indians feel as if the money being looted
is someone else’s and not theirs. Moreover, the Congress being the oldest and
longest ruling party knows how to handle power better than all its rivals and
it is totally amoral and cynical when it comes to retaining power by hook or by
crook. It has become too Teflon coated to the extent that no amount of calumny or
media exposes or adverse Supreme Court judgments or strictures by CAG and other
independent agencies have any effect on its collective psyche. Like Arjuna
aiming for the fish’s eye at Draupadi’s swayambara,
the Congress uses sham, daam, danda, bhed,
to retain power in order that its individual members can make humongous amounts
of illegal wealth, keeping a cut for themselves and passing on the rest to the
High Command, a trend that was introduced by Indira Gandhi and since honed to perfection
by her descendants. It is this huge corpus that keeps Congressmen together even
forsaking their own egos and self-respect while lying prostrate before the
dynasty.
“Now look at the BJP. It has positioned itself on to a
moral high ground of honesty and integrity making it an easy target of the
Congress and sham secular parties to sling mud on it for even the minutest transgression
with their retainers in the media taking it up on 24X7 basis as tarnishing the
BJP’s image as it is both a paying as well as a TRP enhancing activity on prime time
TV. And the Indian public relishes gossip and seeing others squirm in
discomfort in any exercise at washing anyone’s dirty linen in public. An old
warhorse like Delhi based Advani has been around in politics far too long not
to realize all this but he is today using his vast experience to destroy the
BJP from within using his cat’s paws of a few younger acolytes who want to commit ‘Sati’
along with him in his political self-immolation bid in his twilight years. If the
BJP gives in to Advani’s blackmail and toes his line in order to keep him
placated and commits the monumental blunder of keeping Modi out of the Prime
Ministerial race, then the catastrophe that will hit the party could destroy it
and set its recovery back by few decades. The tremendous groundswell generated
in favour of the BJP that has been generated after Modi’s rise to centre stage
would recoil on the party like a tsunami of unforgiving collective anger from
the millions who now find Modi, a household name today pan-India, uncompromisingly
irreplaceable if the party were to make any blunders on this score. As the voters
are averse to choosing any kedgeree formation at the Centre, you can look
forward to UPA-III with Manmohan Singh as India’s longest serving Prime
Minister once again. The fact that this will fortify his oft repeated gleeful
jibes at Advani remaining “forever the BJP’s prime minister in waiting” is
entirely lost on a blindly ambitious Advani in his dotage.
“I also have pity for Rajnath Singh who is grappling
with such a hydra-headed monster that the BJP has now become. Add to his woes a
rampantly partisan and hostile media, the hounding by various subservient to
the government agencies like CBI implicating those close to Modi, a
no-holds-barred effort to appease the Muslim community even at the cost of
national security, the rolling out of the scam generating but populist food security
bill, one can feel that Rajnath has his work cut out for him.”
“So what could be the possible solution for helping the BJP in
getting out of this morass its own party leaders have landed it in?” I asked.
“The immediate action the BJP must take is to announce Narendra
Modi as its prime ministerial candidate to cut off any further drift or
mischief in this regard. Thereafter, anyone acting or speaking against this can
be held liable for disciplinary action for defying the party fiat. A young and
dedicated person can be appointed to discreetly keep tabs on Advani and his group
to ferret out any possible unholy nexus with the Congress or others and then
confront them with the irrefutable evidence of exposing them in the public
domain. There mustn’t be any compromise in isolating Advani and his companions
who have now become a gangrenous part that will need to be amputated if the
infection is to be stopped from spreading to the rest of the body of the party
and tainting the party’s image in the public’s eye any longer. BJP must form
few separate groups of spokespersons who will be tasked with exclusively scuttling
Congress’s releasing red herrings like “BJP is a communal party” etc., for
diverting public attention away from its own monumental acts of omissions and
commissions over the last ten years. Another group can keep exposing the
Congress’s lip service paid to so-called Muslim welfare. Another group can be assigned
with projecting the BJP’s plans that it will implement when it comes to power.
In other words, the BJP must make “Offence is the best defense” its “mool” mantra and avoid falling into any
trap laid by the Congress to put it on the defensive. With the Congress ruling
continuously for the last ten years, it should be the Congress which ought to
be on the back foot.
"Lastly,
if the Congress were to suddenly announce an early election it could
find the BJP in doldrums with people like Advani and his group going all
out to destroy the party from within when it finds itself in disarray. That is my greatest fear of the moment."
*(Those keen to learn more what the hostile-to-the-BJP
media is saying may click on the link below).
Source: http://vidurniti.blogspot.in/2013/07/how-congress-voter-sees-bjp-today.html
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