BJP - Heading for Nowhere

The BJP started out as a flagbearer for the Hindus. The party that had the Ram Mandir as its sole agenda succeeded in gaining ascendency by fuelling the emotions of Hindus and failed in securing any progress towards the resolution of the issue. They had in their folds another so called Hindutva party-the Shiv Sena which added a militant flavour to the concoction. Alongwith the Shiv Sena and several other self styled Hindu organisations like the Bajrang Dal and the VHP they partially succeeded in becoming the Hindu Taliban. Until of course they came to power. With numerous other secular allies in its folds which it dare not ruffle it wasn't able to fulfill its promise to the Hindus. The spectacular success and the ensuing debacle of the BJP in Gujarat after the riots and in India respectively, divided the party much more sharply in two lines. The hardliners and the moderators. So Dhobi ka Kutta na Ghar ka na Ghat ka. They lost the Hindu vote and they earned the Muslim wrath. The successes of the Vajpayee government in bringing the economy back on track after the dotcom bubble burst and the subsequent recession went unheard of in the din of its failure to contain the Modi government excesses. And after the debacle in the Loksabha elections they were completely outmanoeuvered by Sonia Gandhi and her fine politics.

Infact the current scenario positions Narendra Modi as the bridge between the hardliners - who love him as one of their own and the liberals - who commend his excellent work in Gujarat. Yet Modi is unacceptable to any ,nay - to all of the other coalition parties of the erstwhile NDA. A large part of their losses in the general elections can be attributed to the "Indian Hitler".

The basic problem that ails the BJP at the current period of time is the lack of a solid ideology. They have nothing to use as their poll plank and this makes them into a typical opposition party which opposes for the heck of it. Time and again it has been proved that a cause , a just and a supposedly higher cause motivates individuals to great heights. A cause is all that the BJP requires in this hour of darkness, a cause that will lead them to light and glory.