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| BJP: Is the party over? | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 26: Aiming high to consolidate the grounds prepared by the two-month long agitation on land row, the top heavy leadership of the BJP seems to have forgotten that once there used to be an organization called Bhartiya Janta Party situated at Pandit Prem Nath Dogra Bhawan.
Till the middle of June, the BJP was more or less a disciplined organization with growing cadre and responsible office bearers. The campaign of regional discrimination and nationalist sentiment which ran along the Amarnath shrine land agitation saw many parties like Congress and National Conference being pushed to the wall. Apparently this gave the BJP leadership an opportunity to see a clear ground with no one to compete, no one to fear about and perhaps no one to take along.
Super-confident of its prospects of victory, the top leadership of BJP has even put behind the ‘burden’ of organization which this party is respected and acknowledged not only in state but also in the country. At a time when election bugle has been sounded and parties are tightening their belts to face the battle the BJP leadership is not daring to look behind. Reason: party knows none is standing in second, third or any hierarchal row to dispense with the responsibilities.
With self-pleasing feedbacks from the ground that it has a stable foot, the top leadership of BJP is almost completely sidelined all those leaders –in top coordination roles and second rung –who put in their efforts to revive and reshape the party in aftermath of its embarrassing debacle in 2002 elections and later in 2004 Lok Sabha elections.
Except Ashok Khajuria, the state president and a couple of other leaders including Prof Chaman Lal Gupta and Dr Nirmal Singh there is hardly any face in the BJP camp seen in reckoning. Most of the second rung leadership has rushed back to pavilions finding themselves completely isolated in selection of candidates or in sharing other organizational responsibilities.
Leave aside the general public and loyal voters, even many people in BJP office do not know names of all the state level officer bearers as they were never involved in any activity. During a visit to the BJP office, this reporter came across a bizarre scene –a deserted and desolate look. Of course bizarre, because at least during elections even the smallest of political parties have huge activities at their offices.
People like Satish Sharma and Kuldip Raj Gupta who have the top organizational posts have hardly been seen at the party office by anyone in past several months, the obvious regular face of Prof Hari Om is the latest to go missing.
When asked, an office attendant said that Om has not been seen in office for several weeks. Sources said after exhausting all patience, when Hari Om did find himself fitting in the new scheme of things he preferred to stay out of the office. |
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