Freedom from Alliance or Freedom from Crutches for BJP

The worst predicament of the BJP was that it could never contest all the Lok Sabha seats, even when it had come to power, owing to the alliance compulsions where it had to share often more than half of the seats to the NDA constituents. Hence even when it was in power, its own members in Lok Sabha were about one hundred and fifty.

Under such “hostage like” condition, BJP forgot its ethos, morality and commitment to cause, and became committed to maintaining power anyhow. This led to imbibing all the evils the Congress had. Thus BJP went drowning deep and deep into the marshes of the power politics namely caste-politics, minority appeasement, financial irregularities, and what not.

The time has come when Indian masses want a Presidential like election where they know they are making the option of the vote to make such and such person the next Prime-Minister.

BJP must contest nearly all the seats by itself, except in Maharashtra, where the Shiv-Sena had been the B-team of the party. No part of the country today is immune from the intense desire to rid the system from corruption, sycophancy and inertia.

If Bihar CM thinks that the Backward Caste people of Bihar will be immune from the desire to make India (and Bihar) at par in performance and riches with Japan, Korea and Europe, he is under-estimating the virtuous instincts and national aspirations of these people.

The writing on the wall is that BJP must get rid of the burden of JD(U) and the likes. Such burdens are not the crutches, but actually the drags.

What BJP Needs to Do

P. Priyadarshi

priyadarshi101@hotmail.com

The Congress has become the most hated party so far in the history of post-independence India. However this alone cannot become the sole winning factor for the BJP. In fact if people have to choose between the Pre-Modi BJP and the Congress, they would opt for the latter, as has been proved by the outcomes of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly election.

Why this? Because people consider the Non-Modi BJP to be as corrupt as the Congress party. All the second level leaders are non-charismatic, and they do not have any spirit of revolution. All of them are seen as hungry for power that do not see power as a means of national development, but of personal glorification and benefit.

The credit for most of the recent exposures goes to no other political entity than the Subrahmanian Swami. BJP did not bother to quickly bring Swami to the party, and place him at the centre-stage.

The country needs a revolution, not of the much said phony and hypothetical abstract type ‘moral revolution’ but of a new type of legal-constitutional revolution, where those who ignore corruption too need to be taken to task. Something like in the West, where people get jailed for 50 years or 100 years for corrupt practices.

The type of evidence required for proving corruption/crime is also different in the West where conviction can be done with much softer evidence.

Another revolutionary act would be to save the people from the tyranny of the industries, and the 14-day law needs to be introduced in India too. In the 14-day rule, any business transaction can annulled within 14 days of making it. Thus if a customer is not happy with a car, he or she can return it the seller within the 14 day period of purchase and get his money back instantly, without stating any reason for his/her dissatisfaction. This rule applies to the Life-Insurance and other such schemes too. Introduction of this act will be a revolution.

The menace of black-money is rampant in India. In UK, the police constable has the right to chase and ask anyone who is driving an expensive car, and ask about his job and source of income. Although this is done in UK to check the car-thefts, in India, this can be done to check the conspicuous consumption of the black money.

Only Narendra Modi can bring about such revolutionary changes in the Indian legal system. Because he has the vision and he does not run after the voters.

Voters are like girls. They do not love those who run after them only and do not do their works well. They vote for their caste bahubalis only because they don’t have loved-ones. When voters have a choice of a loved-one politician, they abandon their caste goons, in the same way as girls abandon their mangetars if they fall in love with someone else.