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I think BJP is distancing itself for the reason EC with its congress agents may be baying at BJP to own his comments so EC can expand their case to party.
Disown comments and move on. It also leaves VG to become more rabid. If EC goes after him it is good for BJP. EC only has power to make charges it will be long story to actually prove him guilty. By the time if BJP comes to power they can purge EC.
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One wishes BJP were so articulate in matters as you explain. In reality they are not. They do not even have the basic cunning to play politics. Evidence is the 'Cash for Vote' sting they had CNN-IBN do for them, and then cried like a child that Sardesai is neither running the video nor giving BJP a copy, and when it finally came out, they cried that it was doctored. They gave LS ticket in 2004 to the Christian evangelist in Bengaluru, let that fellow carry on his christianist work all throughout the period as MP, only to learn that he ditched them right at the moment to vote for UPA. Or like when they sacrificed a Rajya Sabha seat for Najma Heptullah and also for L M Singhavi the father of Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhavi - known for their secularist credentials.
It is in the DNA of BJP, I think, and not any calculated tactic. Election or no election, they can not live with any open Hindutva element. Go read the history of emergence of Vajpayee after they expelled Prof. Balraj Madhok from the Hindu party. Prof. Madhok was the original heir of Mookerjee, a co-founder of the party, and its president when Jan sangh grew to become a main opposition with respectable number of seats in Parliament. Under him the party had preserved its original Mookerjee character, which Vajpayee and Advani finally subverted. Being a Professor of History, he knew a thing or two, clearer in perspective about the direction of Hindu revival than these fake leaders who are born politicians, and have done nothing professional in their prime except for politics unlike Madhok and Mookerjee.
The BJP's ex-PM and upcoming-PM simply purged all the Mookerjee element from the party, and promoted some green TomTom Hindutva which has now come of age.
Balraj Madhok: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balraj_Madhok
BJP's "hindutva", as Saurav Basu commented, is a typical bania[shopkeeper]-dhimmitude, devoid of the true Hindu character, especially intellectual and kShatriyahood.
The VG episode, like I said, is not about VG, but about observing BJP's continuance of this politically-correct Hindutva. Go vote for them.
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I think BJP is distancing itself for the reason EC with its congress agents may be baying at BJP to own his comments so EC can expand their case to party.
Disown comments and move on. It also leaves VG to become more rabid. If EC goes after him it is good for BJP. EC only has power to make charges it will be long story to actually prove him guilty. By the time if BJP comes to power they can purge EC.
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One wishes BJP were so articulate in matters as you explain. In reality they are not. They do not even have the basic cunning to play politics. Evidence is the 'Cash for Vote' sting they had CNN-IBN do for them, and then cried like a child that Sardesai is neither running the video nor giving BJP a copy, and when it finally came out, they cried that it was doctored. They gave LS ticket in 2004 to the Christian evangelist in Bengaluru, let that fellow carry on his christianist work all throughout the period as MP, only to learn that he ditched them right at the moment to vote for UPA. Or like when they sacrificed a Rajya Sabha seat for Najma Heptullah and also for L M Singhavi the father of Congress Spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhavi - known for their secularist credentials.
It is in the DNA of BJP, I think, and not any calculated tactic. Election or no election, they can not live with any open Hindutva element. Go read the history of emergence of Vajpayee after they expelled Prof. Balraj Madhok from the Hindu party. Prof. Madhok was the original heir of Mookerjee, a co-founder of the party, and its president when Jan sangh grew to become a main opposition with respectable number of seats in Parliament. Under him the party had preserved its original Mookerjee character, which Vajpayee and Advani finally subverted. Being a Professor of History, he knew a thing or two, clearer in perspective about the direction of Hindu revival than these fake leaders who are born politicians, and have done nothing professional in their prime except for politics unlike Madhok and Mookerjee.
The BJP's ex-PM and upcoming-PM simply purged all the Mookerjee element from the party, and promoted some green TomTom Hindutva which has now come of age.
Balraj Madhok: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balraj_Madhok
BJP's "hindutva", as Saurav Basu commented, is a typical bania[shopkeeper]-dhimmitude, devoid of the true Hindu character, especially intellectual and kShatriyahood.
The VG episode, like I said, is not about VG, but about observing BJP's continuance of this politically-correct Hindutva. Go vote for them.