Saturday, June 20, 2009

Wasting Time on a Non-Issue : Friends of BJP — Because India Deserves Better

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    • by Arun Narendhranath
    • Last Saturday I left home early in the morning and went to the tea shops (the best place to understand Indian politics) in different areas of my city. I had three questions for the people I met

      Q1) whom did you vote in the recent elections?

      If the answer was non-BJP (or) did not vote, then I fired the next question

      Q2) Have you ever voted for BJP in your life before?

      If the answer was yes, then the person had to face my third question

      Q3) why you did not vote for the BJP this time around?

      The answers I found for the last question were every Interesting. When I returned late night that day and tabulated all the answers, I found the following as top three answers:

      3) The local BJP leader told me not to vote for the party (R: Party infighting)

      2) I did not know details the polling booth to go and vote (R: Unhappy cadres)

      1) The BJP candidate put up is corrupt & not worthy of voting (R: Moral Bankruptcy)

    • Without realizing the ground realities if party puts ‘Hindutva’ as the most important talking point in its discussion of introspection then I can assure that it is a misplaced priority. The party is facing an Institutional crisis and not an ideological one.
    • If given an option to vote on whether to continue the relationship or not? I would prefer to stick with RSS (which has offered morality to the BJP for decades now) and its ideology.

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