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- If the BJP wants to emerge successfully from the intense, painful but inescapable churning that is now beginning to gather speed, it will need to do much more than appoint a new party president. There are many issues that it will have to fully address well before the next general elections in 2014. Some of these, in my view, are:
- The RSS must limit its intervention to life-saving surgery and amputation only. It should not thereafter succumb to the temptation of running the party full-time.
- Leaders of proven integrity alone should form, to begin with, at least the core of the party's leadership.
- Lumpen elements of the Sangh Parivar must not, under any circumstance, be patronised or encouraged in any manner.
- Criminals must not be given party tickets, no matter what the immediate cost. Definition of 'criminal' must not be dishonestly legalistic; it must be based on the perception of voters - it is their trust that needs to be won, not just in one constituency but across the country.
- Dynastic practices should be firmly banished. Not more than one member of a family should be allowed to contest elections at any level.
- The party must find, as Sagarika Ghose puts it pithily, "a modern leader rooted in the traditional idiom".
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!! समर्थ हिन्दु, समर्थ हिन्दुस्थान !!;........................!! समर्थ हिन्दुस्थान, समर्थ विश्व !!............................ All the posts on this blog are re-postings and post headings point towards the actual posts.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
India Retold: THE RSS SURGERY: WILL IT HELP REVIVE BJP?
India Retold: THE RSS SURGERY: WILL IT HELP REVIVE BJP?
2009-11-19T22:57:00+05:30
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