The Bhartiya Janta Party is basking in internal combustion and that too on national television. But, the ongoing crisis in BJP brings with itself a huge set of opportunities for third generation leaders such as Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shahnawaz Hussain. The current incidents in the party will see almost all the gen two biggies demolish each other. So while Arun Jaitley never misises an opportunity to lash out at Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj, Vasundhara Raje is busy convincing that it is she who is the mass face of the party.
Ever since its inception, in the post JP era, BJP has always fancied itself as 'the party with a difference'. Essentially, what differentiated BJP from Congress and the regional parties was organisational discipline -- a trait which the BJP had clearly borrowed from the RSS.
So, what went wrong?
One thing that has definitely not worked for BJP is politics of co-option. In its urge to prove its governance capabilities, the party gave lateral entry to more than half a dozen 'experts' such as Arun Shourie, Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha. Place for these was created at the cost of people who had much stronger affiliation with the Sangh, the likes of Govindacharya and Uma Bharti.
In the process, bjp by default started getting distance from rss and obviously cud not lverage the organisational planning which has always been a core strength of rss.
I personally think it was a wonderfully carved two pronged strategy of RSS because of which, in just a span of ne decade, BJP emerged as the biggest opposition party in the country from just having two MPs in 1984.
RSS as an organisation works with acute precision and planning. In the early 90s, there were two distinct set of strengths with which the bjp was proceeding. There was an organisation in place whicch was v strict, hardcore in terms of its ideology, absolutely inflexible and thoroughly regimented. It comprised of the likes of Govindacharya and Advani who in turn were direct proteges of the legendary Raju Bhaiya. On the other hand, there was a public face to it that was liberal, flexible and mass based..traits which were very reminisent of the personalitty of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
And while Vajpayee was still being groomed for the country's top job, Sangh, in its true style of functioning, had already drawn up his succession plan.
So why did Sangh give up now? Y isn't it interfering when BJP is going through one of its worst crisis?
Will come back on this..gotta get back to work
