BJP Future - 7

[G.Subramaniam]

But as columnist Swapan Dasgupta noted within days of the report coming out, there was resistance from within the BJP itself to raising the Vadra issue. Subsequently, the party chickened out completely from raising the issue – evidently abiding by the Omerta Code of politics. As contemporaneous media reports had it: “Differences were evident at a meeting of BJP leaders in Parliament… with some leaders advocating caution while some others felt Congress could be asked some questions on Vadra’s activities. Leader of Opposition in the Lok Saba Sushma Swaraj felt it would not be good form to target family members of political rivals.” The argument within the BJP, evidently, was that that “political battles would get out of hand if they got ‘personal’”; BJP president Nitin Gadkari too expressed himself in favour of “weighing the evidence carefully”.