Gulzari Lal Agarwal of Vivek Vihar, Delhi is 73 years old. A regular voter since 1962, he has had close links with both the Jan Sangh and the
BJP. But today this staunch Hindutva supporter is a disillusioned man. The squabbles within the BJP, he feels, has left the party's committed foot soldiers high and dry. He argues that by abandoning its hindutva plank the bjp has lost its core essence. Now he wants advani to go and make way for fresh blood. read on...
I have been attached to the RSS right since my childhood. I was brought up in an environment that put Indian-ness and Hindutva above all else. It was therefore only logical that I came close to Jan Sangh and later the BJP. I participated actively in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and have always been a strong proponent of the Hindutva philosophy. I did not join the BJP to gain personal mileage. I was committed to its ideology, and that is what has kept me going for so long. That is also why I never accepted any post either in the Jan Sangh or the BJP. We had reposed great faith in the party and really thought that it would make a a difference: be disciplined, ethical and of high moral fibre. Most of all we believed that its leaders had a sense of sacrifice.
But after all this bickering it looks like the party is falling apart. From the way its top leaders are baying for each other's blood it appears that the party is full of self-centred people. All this has hurt the morale of dedicated workers. The party that once boasted of providing good governance and transparency has become directionless. People like Vasundhara Raje and Bhagat Singh Koshiyari are sulking because power was taken away from them. They don’t give a damn about how the cadres selflessly worked to build this party. I repeat that this is not the party that we had aspired to create.
Therefore, if you want to save it, all these selfish and power hungry people will have to be ruthlessly weeded out. Next on the chopping block should be those who are not committed to upholding the party's core ideology. For they are opportunists who come only when they feel there is money to be made.
The other major problem is that most of the leaders, even those who are committed to our core ideology, have become arrogant. What I would therefore suggest is that all such leaders be sidelined and isolated within the ranks. They are simply unable to see that the party is not their personal property; that it is bigger than them. They must know that it is they who depend on the party, not vice versa. The only way to cut them to size is to kick them out of the party. That is when they will realise how small their stature actually is. It was the party that gave them their stature. Once they leave it they are sure to become non-entities. The reality should sink in now. Look at Uma Bharti. What happened to her? She could not manage to save her own fort, leave alone her party. On the other hand the BJP, which she had so much wanted to defeat, came out with flying colours.
My personal view is that the primary reason behind this infighting is Advaniji’s holier-than-thou attitude. He thinks he should not be touched and is above the party. This has put the BJP on a ventilator. If you want the party to be cured of its current ills, the first thing to do is to tell Advani to go. And if he resists, the RSS should forcibly evict him.
For quite some time the media has been running the story that Advani will abdicate the post of leader-of-opposition in a few months. I ask why in a few months? Why not immediately? My opinion is that the longer he stays the more harm he will do to the party’s prospects.
I'll give you an example. Imagine somebody laying a boulder on another's chest. Imagine the poor fellow gasping for breath. Then suddenly some Good Samaritan shows up, but the boulder is so huge that it can only be removed bit by bit. So slowly indeed that by the time it is completely removed the man is already dead from asphyxiation. So if you really want to save him, remove the boulder at one go. Today’s Advani is a load on the party’s chest. So if the BJP is to be saved he will need to quit immediately.
BJP. But today this staunch Hindutva supporter is a disillusioned man. The squabbles within the BJP, he feels, has left the party's committed foot soldiers high and dry. He argues that by abandoning its hindutva plank the bjp has lost its core essence. Now he wants advani to go and make way for fresh blood. read on...I have been attached to the RSS right since my childhood. I was brought up in an environment that put Indian-ness and Hindutva above all else. It was therefore only logical that I came close to Jan Sangh and later the BJP. I participated actively in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and have always been a strong proponent of the Hindutva philosophy. I did not join the BJP to gain personal mileage. I was committed to its ideology, and that is what has kept me going for so long. That is also why I never accepted any post either in the Jan Sangh or the BJP. We had reposed great faith in the party and really thought that it would make a a difference: be disciplined, ethical and of high moral fibre. Most of all we believed that its leaders had a sense of sacrifice.
But after all this bickering it looks like the party is falling apart. From the way its top leaders are baying for each other's blood it appears that the party is full of self-centred people. All this has hurt the morale of dedicated workers. The party that once boasted of providing good governance and transparency has become directionless. People like Vasundhara Raje and Bhagat Singh Koshiyari are sulking because power was taken away from them. They don’t give a damn about how the cadres selflessly worked to build this party. I repeat that this is not the party that we had aspired to create.
Therefore, if you want to save it, all these selfish and power hungry people will have to be ruthlessly weeded out. Next on the chopping block should be those who are not committed to upholding the party's core ideology. For they are opportunists who come only when they feel there is money to be made.
The other major problem is that most of the leaders, even those who are committed to our core ideology, have become arrogant. What I would therefore suggest is that all such leaders be sidelined and isolated within the ranks. They are simply unable to see that the party is not their personal property; that it is bigger than them. They must know that it is they who depend on the party, not vice versa. The only way to cut them to size is to kick them out of the party. That is when they will realise how small their stature actually is. It was the party that gave them their stature. Once they leave it they are sure to become non-entities. The reality should sink in now. Look at Uma Bharti. What happened to her? She could not manage to save her own fort, leave alone her party. On the other hand the BJP, which she had so much wanted to defeat, came out with flying colours.
My personal view is that the primary reason behind this infighting is Advaniji’s holier-than-thou attitude. He thinks he should not be touched and is above the party. This has put the BJP on a ventilator. If you want the party to be cured of its current ills, the first thing to do is to tell Advani to go. And if he resists, the RSS should forcibly evict him.
For quite some time the media has been running the story that Advani will abdicate the post of leader-of-opposition in a few months. I ask why in a few months? Why not immediately? My opinion is that the longer he stays the more harm he will do to the party’s prospects.
I'll give you an example. Imagine somebody laying a boulder on another's chest. Imagine the poor fellow gasping for breath. Then suddenly some Good Samaritan shows up, but the boulder is so huge that it can only be removed bit by bit. So slowly indeed that by the time it is completely removed the man is already dead from asphyxiation. So if you really want to save him, remove the boulder at one go. Today’s Advani is a load on the party’s chest. So if the BJP is to be saved he will need to quit immediately.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
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