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| BJP leadership faces a tougher 'master' | | RSS to have total control over BJP poll drive | | From B L KAK
NEW DELHI, June 30: By far the most signifcant development on the national scene: RSS has virtually taken charge of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Emboldened by its succesful selection of the BJP president in place of LK Advani, the RSS has begun to call the shots.
In this there is little resitance from the BJP cadres. The RSS is preparing the ground to contest next year's Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP) by proxy. The Nagpur-based organisation would exercise total control over every aspect of the election, including selection of candidates.
The BJP leadership will be confined to doing. Although the BJP and the RSS claim to be different organisations, the BJP is back to playing the role of the political face of the RSS.
The whole world has already been told that the RSS was instrumental in the unceremonious ouster of veteran leader LK Advani as BJP president and installation of lightweight, Rajnath Singh, as his successor.
A top BJP leader told EARLY TIMES on Friday that the final decision about the RSS having a greater say in the Uttar Pradesh elections was taken at a meeting of senior leaders of the two organisations this June 23. BJP leaders were rattled by reports that it may not be able to win even 50 seats in the 402-member UP Assembly and had no option but to agree to RSS dictates.
BJP insiders say that the RSS has agreed to field a large posse of its fulltime organisers in Uttar Pradesh to canvass support for the BJP and create a favourable atmosphere.The entire State is to be divided into six sectors with each sector being looked after by a senior BJP office-bearer and a senior RSS organiser. State unit office-bearers of the BJP and middle-level RSS organisers will likewise man the district units.
While the BJP will shortlist candidates, the RSS will select from the list based on winning possibility of a particular candidate and the level of his commitment to the pro-Hindu ideology.
The withdrawal of RSS patronage was attributed as one of the primary reasons behind the BJP's shocking defeat in 2004 general elections with the party-led coalition forfeiting power at the Centre.
The BJP in its bid to appease its allies and establish its secular credentials had put its core pro-Hindu ideology on the backburner during its six-year-long rule of the country much to the chagrin of the RSS.
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