Who is Responsible When Things Go Wrong, Jaswant Asks BJP Leadership
The BJP has bitten the dust at the hustings. Shock prevails everywhere in saffron camps, where people, old and energy-less, are said to be introspecting. And here he goes, party’s senior guy, Jaswant Singh, writing to the party leadership and questioning as to why no one takes responsibility when things go wrong.
In a two-page letter drafted in Hindi, Singh also questioned party’s new leadership structure. The letter was circulated at the BJP senior leader at LK Advani’s residence meet on Wednesday.
The letter, volunteering grounds for introspection, comprises of four detailed subheads: Management, Analysis, Responsibility and Delayed Response.
Under subhead Management, Singh has asked why people responsible for election strategising are being rewarded with plum posts?
Analysis subhead asks why should analysis via columns be written only by those who were strategising?
Singh is more impatience in the letter’s third head Responsibility and asks why is there no one to take responsibility when things go wrong?
BJP lost Rajasthan and Delhi in Assembly polls, now it has lost Lok Sabha elections, he said in last subhead while asking as to why is there no attempt to find out reasons for defeat?
He also mentioned in the letter that in 2009 the party was making the same mistakes as it had in 2004.
Before Singh’s letter, party has faced similar reaction from other leaders as well. BJP’s key strategist and senior leader Sudheendra Kulkarni had written a sarcastic article in a magazine putting blame of BJP’s debacle on the second generation.
His article has raised a lot of criticism and the latest to target him is Rajya Sabha MP Arun Shourie. According to sources, Shourie charged Kulkarni of exceeding his brief during Tuesday’s parliamentary party meet.
At the meet, Jaswant also questioned Arun Jaitley for writing another column in a newspaper describing the reasons for party’s defeat in the elections.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), too, had blamed Kulkarni for washing dirty linen in public.
It is not for the first time that Kulkarni is facing the heat from partymen. When Advani was embroiled in the Jinnah controversy, it was Kulkarni who was charged with creating the controversy.
Kulkarni was removed officially from the party posts. However, he came back during the General Elections, going on to become one of the party’s main spokespersons and heading the overall campaigning strategy.
Kulkarni has been the closest aide to Advani over the last four years and that is why many believe that his views are actually reflective of what Advani himself feels disgruntled about.
