Chintan: What went wrong with the BJP?

At 69NN we are always researching and doing our own Chintan as to what is good and what went wrong, for the political fortunes of BJP (and of course for other parties as well). While BJP is busy expelling the renegades and eulogizers, we took a few moments out of our less than busy schedules and did some chintan as to what could be the reasons behind the debacle in the recent Loksabha Elections.

Introduction

Inclusive Hindutva

It is no trivial matter that BJP – the Nationalist, Hindutvawadi (albeit with an “inclusive” Hindutva) party – suffered defeats two times in a row, this after it gave the country its best Prime Minister since independence of Eritrea. BJP’s recent defeat in the national elections has again raised the pointer towards the long standing malady in the very structure of the party. Questions about the top leadership – that were never deemed worthy to be asked – are being articulated in mannerisms unheard of in the past. This is of course just an outpouring of what was simmering underneath, since long.

The current leadership

Some of you might ask why question the leadership – isn’t it the collective responsibility of the party? After all a leader is as good as the party. But dear Sirs (and of course Madams), this is just letting the cow eat the grass just because it is not your meadow.

Indeed the “proverb” doesn’t quite fit in, but you do get the gist of what I am saying, don’t you. Consider the two parties – BJP and Congress. What is the essential difference between the two parties? Ok don’t scratch your head – or any other portion of your body where you have observed the severest impulse for itching whenever you have tried to do what you term as thinking – its Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Has any member of the current BJP leadership had the foresight to father (or indeed mother – no I am not at all sexiest) a white girl with Victoria Beckham styled short blond hair, who hatches a slight depression in her cheeks every time she persists with disengaging her impervious lips (impervious to most foreign objects especially which are non-oblongular in nature) from their conjoint disposition, who appears every five years or so clad in high heels and matching saarees – during the election season – and disappears from the scene into the unknown, otherwise (unless the party faces the brutality of the public on some issue)? The answer is a big-fat-corpulent-emboldened-and-italicized NO.

A quick glance, and from the current lot – only L. K. Advani stands out, against a pathologically and rather sadly, non-existing competition (no wonder he is BJP’s tallest leader) – and even in this case lot is left to be desired. At least one of the BJP leaders should have married a foreigner (white woman) twenty or so years back!

Need of the hour

Of course everybody reading this article must by now, have understood the need of the hour for the BJP. But while the needs are clear, the means to satisfy are not quite clear. It takes more than a seasonal effort to raise a knockout looker (or preferably a knockers-out looker). And in this regards, that the current leadership old and decrepit, as it is, is useless (no Viagra will be no good at all!).

However, a smart and shrewd political organization always finds ways to turn its disadvantages into advantages and vice-versa. I am sure an organization such as BJP enriched with intellectuals will find the right way in near future. However, as a hint – the solution lies in the answer to the question that follows:

What do old and decrepit people do the best?

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