BJP’s two-day national executive meet came to an end with a call to ‘bury the hatched and brace up for ensuing Assembly elections’. The party also eying for ‘must win’ in at least two of the three states – Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh – going to polls this year.
It seems that Advani has tactfully avoided ‘internal strife’ that has apparently surfaced after conspicuous silence that has been maintained by the party top brass almost for a month after the declaration of the Parliamentary election results.
The party had won 138 seats in 2004 general election and now the figure has come down to 116 seats.
First day of the executive meet was more a reply session than a comprehensive review of the poll defeat. Party President Rajnath Singh directly or indirectly responded to the volume of queries that has been thrown by a party vice president before his resignation from all party posts demanding overhauling in party position. Moreover absence of senior leader like Arun Jately, who was a key poll manager, from the executive meet forced some observers to smell ‘bitterness within.’
However, except some heated argument between Maneka Gandhi and two other senior party leaders, the national executive meets was discussion-friendly. Everyone seemed to be agree with Advani’s observation that “the party’s leadership should ‘urgently’ evolve a system to encourage young leaders at all levels”.
It is people who decide which party to represent them. But we expect the BJP to be well organized with proper strategy, free from internal strife, so that it can play a constructive and meaningful role in nation’s interest.