04-22-2008, 04:39 PM
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Does the centre still hold?
All of a sudden the BJP is going through convulsions in State after State, with the central leadership of the party unable to either solve internal problems before they become too acute to be kept under wraps or deal with crises in a manner that no damage is done to the organisation's image. In Bihar, senior legislators who have been dropped from the Council of Ministers or shunted to lesser Ministries despite performing well are up in arms -- their outrage cannot be just swept aside as the fulmination of 'disgruntled elements' or 'habitual dissenters'. The least that was expected of the party leadership was to take these legislators into confidence, although there really is no justification in punishing performers unless the reasons have nothing to do with the BJP's interests. Even before the BJP's central leadership has been able to douse the flames raging in the Bihar unit of the party, trouble has erupted in Maharashtra. The most visible face of the BJP in that State, Mr Gopinath Munde, who commands substantial support among rural voters and has spent the past many years tirelessly building the party, has been rudely snubbed by those currently in charge of the Maharashtra unit. Mr Munde has responded by resigning from all party posts and lashing out at both the State and central leadership, alleging lack of inner-party democracy. Mr Munde, whose loyalty is unimpeachable, is not a novice in politics and would not have behaved in such a belligerent manner unless provoked to the extreme. Obviously, problems have been allowed to fester for too long in Bihar and Maharashtra by a central leadership distracted by, or obsessed with, issues that have nothing to do with the party organisation. If the situation in Bihar and Maharashtra should cause alarm at the BJP's headquarters in New Delhi, the state of affairs that prevails in party units in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and elsewhere should trigger serious concern.
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Does the centre still hold?
All of a sudden the BJP is going through convulsions in State after State, with the central leadership of the party unable to either solve internal problems before they become too acute to be kept under wraps or deal with crises in a manner that no damage is done to the organisation's image. In Bihar, senior legislators who have been dropped from the Council of Ministers or shunted to lesser Ministries despite performing well are up in arms -- their outrage cannot be just swept aside as the fulmination of 'disgruntled elements' or 'habitual dissenters'. The least that was expected of the party leadership was to take these legislators into confidence, although there really is no justification in punishing performers unless the reasons have nothing to do with the BJP's interests. Even before the BJP's central leadership has been able to douse the flames raging in the Bihar unit of the party, trouble has erupted in Maharashtra. The most visible face of the BJP in that State, Mr Gopinath Munde, who commands substantial support among rural voters and has spent the past many years tirelessly building the party, has been rudely snubbed by those currently in charge of the Maharashtra unit. Mr Munde has responded by resigning from all party posts and lashing out at both the State and central leadership, alleging lack of inner-party democracy. Mr Munde, whose loyalty is unimpeachable, is not a novice in politics and would not have behaved in such a belligerent manner unless provoked to the extreme. Obviously, problems have been allowed to fester for too long in Bihar and Maharashtra by a central leadership distracted by, or obsessed with, issues that have nothing to do with the party organisation. If the situation in Bihar and Maharashtra should cause alarm at the BJP's headquarters in New Delhi, the state of affairs that prevails in party units in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and elsewhere should trigger serious concern.
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