It’s a sad state of affairs in Indian politics of late. In-fighting in political parties is being aired on national television, but then that’s nothing new. L.K.Advani, Kulkarni and Vasundhara Raje are embroiled in the midst of one the worst fights played out on the 9 o’clock news. On the other side, there is the controversial ouster of the respected and very senior leader, Jaswant Singh for penning a book on his views on Jinnah.
Why wasn’t Jaswant stopped from writing the book? The book was no secret.
Jaswant calls Jinnah great, but didn’t Advanji say M.A.J. was a “genuine secularist” in his visit to
There seems to be a lot of heads rolling in the party lately. Who is the Queen of Hearts in the BJP?
Kulakarni puts in his papers to a party he has served for almost a decade and a half over what he calls “ideological differences”. Kulkarni claimed he was still loyal to the party, but there had to be something that changed the equation suddenly. The party got a whipping in the recent national elections. Yet no heads rolled at that point, except for a half hearted attempt from L.K.A. to resign.
Then there is Vasundhara Raje Scindia. A public show was put on over the past few days with her MLAs camping out in
Now I hear there is another head set to roll, that of Arun Shourie. The reason: he had publicly questioned the party’s debacle in the elections and criticized the party here.
It is indeed a sad state of affairs. Democracy be damned, autocracy rules. The Congress is all about The Parivaar, the BJP had offered an alternative, but the party seems to have lost its focus. A line in the above article by Shourie sums up the dilemma faced by voters: “…our real problem: there is nowhere to turn for an alternative.”
