Karnataka results serves as a lesson for BJP: Advani
New Delhi: BJp’s Senior leader LK Advani on Sunday said the Karnataka poll verdict has serves as a lesson to both his party and Congress about not “taking the common man for granted”.
“Sheer self-respect demands that the PM calls it a day, and orders an early general election,” he said. Congress has, however, dismissed reports that the action against the two was taken at the insistence of Gandhi and said it was a “joint decision” of the Prime Minister and Gandhi.
Advani wondered that if corruption provoked indignation in Bangalore, why it would not cause the same feeling in New Delhi. “I feel sorry that we have lost in Karnataka. But I am not surprised. The surprise would have been if we had won,” Advani said on his blog.
On the party’s handling of corruption during BS Yeddyurappa’s regime, Advani said had BJP taken immediate firm action, “the course of events would have been quite different”.”But for several months, frantic efforts went on somehow to keep placating him by condoning his peccadilloes,” the BJP veteran said, adding that the justification given was that if the party did not adopt a ‘pragmatic’ approach it would lose its only government in the south.
