Crisis in BJP deepens

Since the humiliating defeat in Lok Sabha elections, there appears no respite of humiliation even after the assembly elections in three states in which the party has recorded dismal performance and the Congress-led ruling UPA has won 3-0. The leadership crisis is haunting the BJP since its tallest leader and former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee retired from active politics. BJP MP and famous Bollywood star Satrughan Sinha has also demanded surgey of BJP because the medicines so far have failed to cure it. Though after Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani remains the unchallenged leader of the party because of his valuable contribution to building the party with Vajpayee,party could never reach unanimity on his leadership. With his total control over the party, factionalism became the hall mark of the party which in past boasted of a party with a difference. It is beyond any doubt that Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh has been its philosophical, inspirational and political centre of the BJP. BJP is the political wing of the RSS so it can not see it perish in this way. That is why after the successive drubbing of the party, RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat suggested it to diagnose the disease which has struck it resulting its existence as formidable opposition has become doubtful. Whether the BJP needs surgey, medicine or chemotherapy, it is to be diagnosed by itself and RSS is always there to give the party its valued suggestions. This was said by none other than the RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat and it is reported that he is meeting to discuss the matter . BJP president Rajnath Singh, who is at the fag end of his term as party president, has reacted sharply by saying that someone has lost his balance of mind that is why he says like that. While veteran BJP leader Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi has rightly said that RSS is itself the doctor of BJP so it is free to diagnose the desease and prescribe medicines to cure it. Now enough is enough. RSS should only fecilitate the honourable exit of Advani and make arrangement of youthful and dynamic leadership of BJP to provide the nation a formidable opposition in the prevailing situation.