It is desirable that BJP wins the next general election in 2009. I am telling it because no single party or a same alliance should rule a country for more than two consecutive terms in a democracy. Otherwise the ruling party or coalition may be as callous as to be uncaring to the need for betterment and there grow vested interests. In our country no political party is immune to corruption and so the situation becomes worse when the same rulers continue for considerably long time as it has happened in West Bengal. The party or the coalition takes people for granted without any scruple. The UPA government has made a mess in all the major arenas of administration. So if they are given another term it will be disaster for India and democracy. It goes without saying that Rahul Gandhi and the so called babalog will rule the country-only to establish a conception that dynastic rule is better that democracy.
But BJP under L.K. Advani will not be able to snatch power from the present dispensation. Advani unlike Vajpayee does not have an acceptable personality. He is not confident of himself. His remarks on Zinnah are enough to prove that he is not credible. He has recently engage himself to make himself acceptable to people by writing that he was not a party to the decision to handover the terrorists in Kandahar although he was the home minister at that time. What would he want to gain by such statement? It’ll only belittle his party in the eyes of the people. Surely –he has yet to achieve such personality and charm to put Vajpayee in poor light. If his intention is to harm Brajesh Mishra or Jasvant Singh-then it is an exercise to fight with shadows. He should have realized that the main issue of the next election will be the price rise and non-governance.
One of the greatest recent blunders of BJP was not to back APJ Abdul Kalam as their presidential candidate. Mere arithmetical calculation showed that BJP’s nominee had no chance. When defeat was a fait accompli why not standing by a very popular scientist who was also from the minority community! The defeat of Kalam in that case would be a loss of face for Congress for various reasons especially when people were not aware of a name-Prativa Patil. The decision –not to support Kalam as a candidate-must have been backed by Advani.
The gradual eclipsing of Vajpayee from the throne of BJP has been showing its signs. Advani may rouse a religious emotion but he has not that vision and diplomacy to determine a path for the people of as complicated a country as India.
The name of Modi has been made a synonym for maud. The whole press of India and the Congress and its left allies was successful in their propaganda blitz against Modi. But the Congress killed far more Sikhs in Delhi and its surroundings in two days at the instigations of some prominent Congress leaders. It was not a riot. It was genocide. No single bullet was fired from the police against the killers. Advani has been a failure to make people remind of that ghastly act of the Congress after ModI’s victory this year. Advani should have made it a point in this spectacular victory of Modi that Gujratis are not rioters or supporters of riots. This is the failure of Advani. I’m not supporting Modi for his role in that ghastly riot in Gujrat. I am raising the issue only to make a comparison between the two uncivilized incidents and the point of political diplomacy.
Advani should also be more alert about the fact that Indian press in general is more in favour of Ms Sonia Gandhi and the dynasty than they are for Advani.
