BJP Future - 7

[Capt M Kumar]

Now that the courts are pro-actively dealing with the Ayodhya dispute (the Allahabad High Court’s judgement has been challenged in the Supreme Court) the BJP naturally feels under no compulsion to worry about distractions of the past. It’s a new leadership and a new party that prepares to face the challenges of the present and seize the opportunities of the future — that’s the message which has been sent out by the party from Guwahati. A year after taking charge of the BJP, Mr Nitin Gadkari and his colleagues have infused a new dynamism in the organisation and crafted a new plank that has served the party well.

However, reviving a listless organisation by enthusing the cadre is only half the job done. As a national alternative to the Congress, the BJP must now come up with an alternative agenda of governance that is both credible and radically different from that of its main political foe. It’s not sufficient to point out flaws — of which there are many — in the Congress’s policies and programmes; it’s important to posit what the party plans to do if voted to power. That’s what had propelled the BJP to victory in 1998 and 1999. And while doing so, it must look at the future of an aspirational India where voters are clear in their minds as to what they want for their country as well as for themselves. It has to be a multidimensional agenda of governance which is inclusive and touches the nation as a whole. http://www.dailypioneer.com/309738/BJP-i...-mode.html