“It shows that those who would have appropriated credit if the party had won are bent on shrugging off responsibility for the disastrous showing in Bihar”, said the statement. Obviously, they want a few actions against Modi and Shah.
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The veteran leader said that the focus of campaign by Modi and Shah should have been Bihar’s underdevelopment and its progress.
In a veiled attack on Mr Shah, Begusarai MP Bhola Singh said that “drunk in power”, the party’s top leadership was always seen “surrounded by sycophants”. The Grand Alliance had made no such promise in this election. He faces five elections next year in regions where his party has failed to make inroads.
“The BJP lost 2004 Parliamentary elections I was the President, Atalji was the leader”. “Advani and Joshi formed the triumvirate of BJP along with A B Vajpayee and if they are saying something about the party, it is a serious matter”, he said.
The BJP’s greatest worry was for the first time in the last several years, Modi’s credentials as a leader were being challenged from within.
Before the statement was released from the residence of Joshi, a former BJP president, former union minister Arun Shourie and former RSS ideologue K N Govindacharya were closeted with Joshi. In fact, as a party, the BJP has witnessed more defeats than victories. It’s not a party of any leader.
NCP leader Majid Memon said the BJP and the in the larger context the NDA is a two-man show, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah are in the lead.
Now, let us find out the record of LK Advani.
In recent months India’s image overseas has been battered by a series of incidents of sectarian violence. But the BJP lost badly, its tally falling from 138(in 2004 poll) to 116 seats.
PM Narendra Modi addresses an election rally in Sasaram, Bihar, on October 9. Details of their talks are not known but the Finance Minister, once an Advani protege, is believed to have been tasked with the responsibility to defuse the situation even as other partymen such as Union Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh attributed the BJP’s defeat to lack of a strong local leadership in the party’s state unit. “It is in the future on what kind of circumstances might arise”, Rajnath Singh added. Singh said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, on the other hand, remained dignified attracting voters from different communities. The prime minister dumped the development platform halfway through the campaign and went back to the old BJP staple of attacking Muslims and the old Bihar chestnut of whipping up caste anger.
Was Advani taken to task for the debacle of the NDA in 2009?
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Noting that democracy has no place for the word “I” and the very meaning of democracy lies in “We”, Surjewala said “On the contrary, PM Modi’s brand style is one way communication”. “The first lesson, of course, is that there is no need for despair or despondency”.
