Not knowing where to go is no crime. But with all its satraps pulling in different directions, the BJP's top leadership -- and that includes L K Advani, Nitin Gadkari, the lot -- seems to be standing still. The party has been assaulted so badly, it hurts to laugh!
Take the events in Gujarat. Chief Minister Narendra Modi has demonstrated he's a winner -- but the party, a loser. Eighty-three-year-old Keshubhai Patel, along with his merry band of men including Suresh Mehta and Kanshiram Rana, has announced that he will launch a "Bas Ab To Parivartan" (enough, now: change) campaign from July 8 to dislodge Modi.
Patel came to Delhi but got no hearing. True, Modi has been winning every election in Gujarat in the last 10 years. But while the BJP's vote was 40 per cent in the last assembly elections, the Congress's vote was 38.8 per cent and the Bahujan Samaj Party's four per cent.
Govardhan Zadafia, one of the protagonists of the "parivartan" campaign says their group will seek nothing from the Congress -- it is the rectification of the BJP, it seeks. So, its appeal will be to the Hindus of Gujarat. If instead of 117 seats out of 182 that the BJP currently has, its tally dips to 90 -- what then?
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