The BJP saga – Winners and Losers

The whole BJP saga comes across a game in which the real winners and losers are not the participants of the game but the spectators watching the game from sidelines. The game players are the senior leaders of BJP who are whiplashing the party one after another and getting expelled, being serviced notices and are everywhere on your TV screen and daily newspapers. BJP has expelled Jaswant Singh for his book which apparently praises Jinnah and describes him as a secular leader. Its not possible that before making a decision, the BJP leaders might have read the saga considering the humongous size of the book. Arun Shourie and Vasundhara Raje are other leaders who have revolted against the BJP leadership (read BJP President Rajnath Singh) and are awaiting their respective decisions.

The winner in this game is clearly the publisher of the Jaswant Singh's book, which is selling like hot cakes throughout the country and I am sure the sales in India will be outpaced by ones in Pakistan. The runner up is Pakistan, who must be enjoying oneself looking at the imbroglio their father of nation has created in India's main opposition party. Where their current leaders were not successful, the dead have come to the rescue. Closely followed by them is the Indian television media which must be enjoying a gala time broadcasting Arun Shourie running with a lose toungue like a mad man and Jaswant Singh firing salvos at LK Advani. Time to earn good advertising revenues.

The biggest loser is definitely the Indian public. It's imperative for a nation like India, to have a strong opposition and to have atleast 2 big parties fighting election against each other rather than to have a monopoly like situation which existed during earlier Congress regimes. If the BJP cracks, we will be deprived of a formidable opposition to the current government. Also, with the country facing drought and challenging economic conditions, we would be better off with leaders fighting against these conditions rather than among themselves.

(P.S.Just read that ex-RSS chief Sudarshan has also come out in supprt of Jinnah and against Gandhi. I believe that as a party, BJP stands more united in their stand against Gandhi and Congress than Pakistan or Jinnah. So as long as BJP has enough ammunition to fire against Congress, the minorities need not worry.)