Advices To BJP Party

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A TELEGRAPH REPORT OF INTEREST
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0: Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh virtually raised a banner of revolt against colleagues L.K
Advani and Arun Jaitley in a meeting of the party’s core committee today
The Darjeeling MP circu- lated a one-page note at the meeting in which he called for a parity between “inam”(reward) and “parinaam”(result)
Apart from Advani and Jaitley,those who attended the meeting included Murli Manohar Joshi, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Rajnath Singh Sushma Swaraj and Ananth Kumar
The note was promptly handed back to Jaswant for
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e fear that the media might lay their hands on it. But news leaked soon after, setting off a buzz on what Jaswant might have meant
The general interpretation - - was Jaswant had vented his ire against the appointment of Advani and Jaitley as Opposition leaders in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, passing up veterans like himself and Joshi, who also won a hardfought battle from Varanasi
BJP sources said Jaswant prefaced his note by saying that he had put his views in writing as he might not be able to “say exactly what I mean”
When Jaswant demanded a “free and frank” discussion on the BJP’s rout in the Lok Sabha polls,Rajnath reportedly promised an introspection
session would be held shortly
The BJP chief also said a three-member team would be set up to look into the causes of the defeat
Sources said the BJP had reconciled itself to Advani’s re-anointment but the pitch against Jaitley was “becoming
shriller by the day”
In a meeting of the BJP parliamentary party yesterday, another veteran, Arun Shourie, had questioned the propriety of Jaitley and Advani’s political aide Sudheendra Kulkarni commenting about the party’s showing in different publications
Sources said Rajya Sabha MP Shourie began by saying Jaitley and Kulkarni were “good friends” of his,but went on to question if it had been “proper” of them to analyse the poll verdict before the party formulated its position
In an article,Kulkarni had blamed the RSS for making a “strong” leader like Advani look “weak, helpless and not fully in command”. He then recommended that the Sangh
take tips from the way Sonia Gandhi and Rahul “made an essentially weak PM like Manmohan Singh look strong by backing him solidly”
In another publication, Jaitley had said there was a surge in favour of the Congress and Manmohan’s image had “created a sense of sympathy, that a man who wanted to deliver was being obstructed from proceeding further” principally by the Left
He did not mention the BJP’s obstructive role in Parliament but said: “Sober governance helps, shrillness does not. Moderation and understatement are virtues.” The BJP, including Ad- vani, distanced itself from Kulkarni’s stand. Joshi supported Jaswant today
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