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I am not a political expert, but today I cannot help but pat my back for recently vaticinating that the chances of BJP coming back to power in 2014 are weak.
I cannot say for sure whether the Congress will continue in power but
given the fact that there is practically no opposition, the chances of
the country’s oldest party winning a third term are strong. The BJP had
some chance of applying the brakes on the ruling UPA government given
its pathetic governance coupled with unbridled corruption across all
levels. But the recent decision of Lal Krishna Advani has definitely thrown away any hopes of BJP’s victory out of the window.
With BJP declaring that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would be
the one who will lead the party’s campaign charge in the 2014 General
Elections, the 85-year-old Advani decided to hang his boots showing
clear signs that he was unhappy with the decision. In his resignation letter
Advani wrote that the reason behind his decision to quit from all the
main executive bodies of the party was because he was “finding it
difficult to reconcile either with the current functioning of the party,
or the direction in which it is going”. He also alleged that “most
leaders of ours (BJP) are now concerned just with their personal
agendas”.
Apparently he is accusing Modi and his supporters within the party
for harbouring “personal agendas” but it seems Advani himself is the one
full of those. His personal agenda? To be the Prime Minister of India.
Evidently, his self-centered action invoked the indignation of Modi’s
supporters who vented their anger on Twitter. Most tweets took a jibe at
Advani comparing him to a sulking young boy who won’t play cricket if
he is not allowed to bat first because he owns the bat and ball. It
appears that even with over five decades of experience in politics L.K.
Advani has yet to learn the basic lesson: step-aside when the time is
right or you’ll be pushed aside.
Read why Advani has blown up any chances the BJP had ahead of the 2014 General Elections here:
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