It is fairly obvious that L.K. Advani has initiated the Yatra with more of himself and less of his party in mind. There seems to be a new trend in the country, which is fighting corruption to secure the vote banks. The only person, who really had his intentions behind it, does not want to enter politics, Anna Hazare. The others, who only wish to secure their place in the polity, are using this as an instrument of mass reach. Narendra Modi got over with his fast on the 19th September, 2011. The entire act backfired, with his PM rumors showing their downside, and with the lineup of BJP ministers at Ahmedabad failing to reassure and regain the faith of the people in BJP.
To add to the commotion is the Advani Rath Yatra, which he plans to initiate on the 11th of October. The idea again is to fight corruption. The media and the masses over online social forums have already started criticizing the superficiality of the claim. But this is not the real trouble for Mr. Advani. It is in fact the internal party conflicts that must be worrying the 84 year old. Who seems to be making a final attempt at regaining his stature in the country, as it used to be during the Vajpayee times, and maybe also making a final attempt at the PM chair?
During the Modi fast, the CM of Bihar, Nitish Kumar announced openly the withdrawal of his parties support to BJP, if the Gujarat CM stood for the PM lineup. A very similar notion has been raised by the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. He has summoned Advani to meet him at Nagpur on the 21st of September 2011. His demand is similar to what Nitish’s was in lieu of Modi. The RSS chief wants to converse over the non consultation that preceded Advani’s announcement for the Yatra. Media sources conveyed that RSS chief would like Advani to announce that he will not be running for the PM seat in 2014, which he did on the same day after his meeting with the respective leaders of BJP and RSS.
It seems that no one in BJP wants anyone to be the PM. Or as is obvious, too many people are in a line up to be the PM.
Thus the only highlight that comes to mind is the BJP leader Gadkari’s statement, which claimed that the 2014 elections will not be held with a party face but rather as a collective unit. As the clashes are the new trend within BJP, even this statement of the party president was contradicted by Arun Jaitley, who claimed that 2014 elections will be fought with a party face, and the face will be decided when needed and has not been done as yet.
The entire situation screams of a lacking plan. As for Modi, there is too much dirt on him to even imagine being the PM, there is the Lokayukta issue, then the 2002 issue and to add to it a failed fast and an indecisive party. For Advani the situation is worse, as the fakeness of his Yatra has become clear even before its start, and to add to the fight there are party colleagues who are not showing all out support, rather demanding acceptance of conditions like no PM stint, before providing their support. The under discussed chaotic elements of the BJP are no better. Sushama Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Gadkari are also functioning without a plan, and are swaying to high and low pressure zones in a balancing effect.
The masses don’t have a permanent memory, but collectively they do have a relevant memory. Hence it would not be a long shot to say that, congress might pull off the 2014 elections also, not because of their Great Spirit and Halo, but because of the Chaos, Disorder and Internal Conflicts of the BJP.
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