Essentially LK Advani has thrown the gauntlet at the RSS to get out
of BJP.
*** I will believe that when I see that happen. Anyone whose protege'
is Nerobhai Modi, could not be that far off from RSS or VHP
ideologies. Besides, would the BJP stand a chance without VHP, RSS,
Shiv Senas and the Bajrang Dal?
it seems it was a secular sin too. The Congress /
Nehru Gandhi parivar came out strongly against Jinnah.
*** Just because the Congress party could not rise above its members'
Hindu bigotries in giving the Muslims the ol' heave-ho at
independence, does not mean it is a sin of the secular Indians. The
Congress party is NOT the sole standard bearers of India's secular
polity, is it?
At 6:49 PM -0700 6/8/05, Rajib Das wrote:
One school of thought is it is not. Essentially LK
Advani has thrown the gauntlet at the RSS to get out
of BJP. And BJP (or at least those having allegiance
to Advani / Vajpayee) wants to chart its own path
independent of RSS. The reason being, while BJP will
continue to be nationalist, it wants to free itself of
the rabidity of the VHP and many of the arcane ideas
of the RSS. What they realized in their short time at
leading the government is that for the party to move
forward, it needs to liberate itself from any kind of
idealogy and focus on governance and economy.
But then it is a sorry state of affairs when
politicians have to go all the way to Pakistan to get
the fealty of Indian Muslims. Laloo with his Lahori
aloo did it to great effect. Rajiv Gandhi brought
Benazir to Lucknow. Worse even LKA has had to do it.
The entire Indian political class has not given up the
two nation theory. And then they denounce Jinnah.
Incidentally, calling Jinnah was not just a Hindu sin,
it seems it was a secular sin too. The Congress /
Nehru Gandhi parivar came out strongly against Jinnah.
God forbid, historians in India find out really how
much Nehru was instrumental in partitioning India.
--- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is this another one of those 'daam borhwa'
resignations ( resignation
to increase stature)?
Any bets :-)?
BTW, what exactly did LKA say about Jinnah that sent
the VHP and RSS
on the warpath ? Did calling him a secular patriot
amount to a Hindu
sin, or was there something more to it ?
cm
BJP sinks deeper into crisis
MOHUA CHATTERJEE
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, JUNE 09, 2005 12:56:12
AM ]
Surf 'N' Earn -Sign innow
NEW DELHI: The crisis in the BJP deepened on
Wednesday evening with L
K Advani rejecting out of hand an appeal by senior
BJP leaders to
reconsider his resignation as party president.
He insisted that it would not be possible to do so
as BJP had not
moved to defend him against criticism over his
remarks on Pakistan
founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
The BJP delegation which called on Advani to
present him a
resolution that urged him to take back his
resignation found the
leader in an unrelenting frame of mind.
"What is new in this resolution? It is very much
the same as what
you had to say yesterday," he is understood to have
told the "
leaders, most of whom are seen as his proteges.
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