what ails BJP?

BJP are you into Harakiri?
· Raje, proves her royalty by digging heels and resisting what she thinks is not right.
· Arun shourie exhibits his English exposure calling the party Alice in Blunderland and Humpty Dumpty
Just been reading an excerpts’ from a conversation with Prof. Dwijendra Tripathi, of IIM-A
The start point is of course Jaswant Singh being Just-not-wanted, the cause being cited is his insult of Sardar Patel in his book on Jinnah. Fine we’ll give that. What we learnt was Sardar Patel was a Congressman, a man who put Gandhi’s word over the countries interest.( He stepped aside for Nehru to become prime minister at Gandhi’s request)
Question is why does BJP need Sardar Patel? Is it because they need an iconic figure. After all the congress has patented the Gandhi-Nehru brigade. While Savarkar, or Deendayal Upadhyaya or Madhav Golwalkar are interred in the annals of history. Even when referred to they do not whip up that glitz that excites—I’m not talking about inspire here. While Dasharath Nandan Ram could be a myth.
Again why Sardar Patel?—was he not the man who banned RSS post Gandhi assassination. Well Prof.Tripathi says that Sardar would bow to no one’s pressure not even Gandhi let alone Nehru. He did bow down to the public pressure which held the RSS responsible for the assassination.
No matter how much I dislike Bachi karkaria and writing she is right when she says, BJP is like Alice, when asked who are you it can only say ” This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. I - I hardly know, sir I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."
So where does Sardar Patel gel with BJP. Interestingly what does BJP represent now? May be it is time that they whipped up their manifesto, and built a vision board. If it does gel with our visions the avam will support them no doubt. Its dicey now as we don’t even know what we are supporting. The vision is enticing enough we shall even vote them to power, icons or no icons.