PUSILLANIMOUS BJP - 2

Does the BJP comprehend the nature of political challenges faced by it?

This is the question that must be answered by the party organisation before it really gets down to developing its strategy of survival on India’s political scene.

Dealing with an adversarial media

The Indian media is totally under the sway of the Congress party. A complex network of organisations and top-notch professionals is masterminding this massive conspiracy. They work with a well-defined agenda and objective -- to ensure the continuation of the Sonia/Rahul regime at any cost. The ownership and finances of TV news channels like NDTV and CNN IBN should be investigated to unearth the sneaky strategies of certain foreign powers to control the media space. One expects the BJP leadership to be aware of this. The question is if you can really develop an effective counter-strategy. You obviously cannot create a parallel media network overnight. You will require time and money to do it. You may still have some people in the media who have sympathies for you. You will need to network them and get them to take a definite stand and be counted. They will have to shout and scream to get heard and noticed. You probably can use the social networking sites more aggressively. You must expose the real face of the likes of Rajdeep Sirdesai and Pranoy Roy and the rest and openly question their journalistic integrity and apparent collusion with the ruling establishment. If you are looking for a solid answer to this, start a mass based political movement, characterised by an upsurge of people that sweeps these agents of Sonia off their high perch and into the dustbin of history.

Dealing with an adversarial judiciary

Khullamkhulla has been repeatedly saying that the Supreme Court and a large section of judicial officers have become extensions of the Sonia cabal. It is amply evident in the various tainted and biased judgements delivered by them. The judges who clearly wish to be in the good books of the Congress party are setting dangerous precedents with their weird, completely out-of-order, and motivated judgements. The silence of well-known jurists over these portentous developments is shocking and surprising too. You must dare the judiciary, and raise an accusing finger and seek investigation into its unholy and clandestine nexus with the ruling class. One is certain that the BJP leaders like Arun Jaitly are aware of these behind-the-scene machinations. They should have raised their voices a long time ago and named all those judges who are doing the bidding of Sonia and interlocutors like Kapil Sibbal. They should have created a strong lobby of jurists to thwart the attempts of the Congress party to co-opt the highest judiciary. This would have had a salutary effect on the conspiring judges. One wonders why the BJP leadership is on the back foot here. What is it that stops them from calling a spade a spade? Is it because most of the top leaders of the BJP are lawyers and have got so well-integrated with the capital’s elite that they would not like their personal equations with these corrupt and compromised judges to be affected?

You need strong leaders who are ready to work hard and lead from the front and rebuild and strengthen the support network of nationalist forces

The Delhi leadership of the BJP has become ‘Parliament’ and ‘Media’ oriented and has completely lost touch with the people of this country and the grass-root cadre of the party. They practice the most convenient five-star brand of ‘routine’ armchair politics, smug in the knowledge that none can displace them from their perches since they have become the face, the ‘Mukhauta,’ of the party. They are basically inspired by the legacy of Vajpayee, another ‘Mukhauta,’ who rose to become the PM on the shoulders of millions of workers without leading a single political movement in his life. He survived off his inane, rhetorical, and flowery oratory. He was neither a visionary nor an ideologue and once in power, simply imitated the style and manner of earlier rulers. The new ‘Mukhautas’ don’t have the time or the talent to think and devise mass-based political programmes. They come across as mediocre men and women with no convictions, and rely more on their rhetorical volubility than political, economic, and intellectual acumen. They are not driven by strong ideological convictions based on a realistic and an in depth understanding of the Nation’s problems. They confine their political activism to useless posturing and friendly debates in the Parliament and in TV chat shows. They have all the time to head state cricket associations and to participate in IPL Governing Board meetings but cannot chart out a plan of organisational revamp, mentoring of new leaders, and initiation of mass action programmes. They don’t seem to be concerned about the threats and challenges their party faces today, and the fact that the global support network of Sonia is working overtime to decimate the little remaining influence of the Sangh Parivar.

The task of winning back the faith and confidence of people, your sympathisers, and workers

You have to stand by the people as their guide, friend, philosopher, and servant and empathise with their problems as well as educate them about the dangers facing the country. You have to involve and engage them in the political process and become their legitimate and vociferous spokesman. You must develop and organise mass-based political programmes and reach every countryman. This will help bolster the morale of your sympathisers and workers as well. Your ideological flip-flop on critical issues has made you a suspect in the eyes of your core constituency. The people perceive you as self-serving power seekers, at par with other hardened, corrupt, and two-faced politicians. It is not just the people, even your cadre and other Sangh parivar workers look at you that way. And they are not wrong. They have seen your senior leaders speaking in different voices and jostling for positions of power to serve their personal ambitions. You need to work very hard to win back the confidence of people and to inspire and unify your core constituency. You must rediscover your ideological moorings and should come across as a party of people with unwavering convictions and definite plans to build a great nation, free from hunger, penury, disease, and ignorance.

The issues

There is no dearth of them. They are serious enough to give a call for a mass movement to uproot this government.

Behind the miasma and deafening din of economic growth figures tom-tommed by the corrupted, co-opted, and pro-Sonia media, lies the story of rampant and large-scale corruption, money laundering, murky deals among power brokers, gross economic mismanagement, horrendous waste of precious national resources, high rates of taxation, and complete lack of vision and direction in plans, policies, and programmes of this government. It is a government by a few for the few.

The Congress party and the UPA government have done everything within their powers to weaken our democracy and federal structure. They have damaged and destroyed the integrity and independence of our bureaucracy, judiciary, investigating agencies, Election Commission, state governors, various government departments, and even the fourth state, by misusing them blatantly to serve their political interests.

It is an autocratic government. We have repeatedly seen how it treats this Parliament. It has no moral qualms in coercing, cajoling, and bribing political parties and their leaders for their support during crucial votes. It has vitiated, corrupted, and seriously abused the Parliamentary process, thus rendering it ineffective in voicing the real concerns of the people of this country.

It has created deep divisions in our body politic, following the divide and rule policy the Congress party inherited from the British who used it effectively to rule this country for more than 130 years. Driven by electoral arithmetic that necessitates nurturing of vote banks, the government goes out of its way to appease the dominant minorities, making dangerous compromises in internal security and other matters of governance. Nothing is sacrosanct for this government to ensure its continuation in power. It lies brazenly and uses immoral and unethical means for that. It even encourages separatist elements, and fissiparous parochial regionalism to meet this objective. This makes a mockery of our democracy, and creates fertile grounds for the rise and spread of the Maoists and the other militant groups.

This government has assiduously tried to kow-tow the global policies of the western powers, the USA in particular, to bring India within their circle of influence. It has knowingly subordinated the nation’s economic, internal and external security, and geo-political interests to those of these western nations. It has severely compromised our sovereignty as an independent nation by entering into devious and secretive global treaties. There are clear indications that there is more than what meets the eye behind these developments and a grand strategy is at work here, which is obviously designed to impair our political and economic freedom.

The leadership of the Congress Party and this government is rank mediocre and is incapable of providing a new direction to the Nation and its people. They represent the forces of status quo. They use their media management skills and a corrupt bureaucracy to camouflage and cover up for their incompetence. They are suave fraudsters and hustlers. It suits their purpose to promote mediocrity and corruption. Look at the way they are conspiring to foist an idiot as the leader of our nation.

These developments generate deep anger and disgust in the minds of those who really care for this Nation and believe that their government and political ledership should be just, compassionate, ethical, and accountable to the people. It is surprising and sad that the present day BJP leadership does not feel this way. Its reponse to these serious challenges is routine, and totally devoid of conviction and heartfelt concern for the people and polity of the country.