Wikileaks now reveals that Arun Jaitley told a US diplomat that the Hindutva agenda is “incidental” i.e. it is a matter of opportunism and a ruse to get votes like secularism is for Congress. From the BJP point of view this is a little disconcerting. However, if you know the America, which is a Christian country and has a distrust of all non-Semitic religions then you know that there is a good reason behind it. When you are talking to one of your biggest business partners and worlds sole hyper power (at least for now) then you tell them what they want to hear rather than something that will make them step back and re-evaluate. Around the same time when this event happened, the liberal Indian media was in full attack mode on the BJP. New York Times op-ed had described the BJP and RSS as the Indian KKK (a racist organization in the USA). With that in mind how could Jaitley tell the US diplomat that Hindutva was key to the BJP agenda? Of course it is for the BJP leadership to find out the real truth. If Jaitley was telling the truth to the US diplomat then the BJP supporters need to step back and re-evaluate. Of course no sooner than this was revealed than the Congress attack dogs found an opening. Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday said Arun Jaitley's reported comment that the Bharatiya Janata Party was using Hindutva as an opportunistic tool has exposed the real face of the party and demand an apology from him. Well, what Sibal does not realize is that without Hindutva, they will have no excuse left to criticize the BJP led government. It is in their insidious interest that the BJP has the Hindutva agenda. Amazing isn’t it!! On another note, BJP welcomed K J Alphons to the party fold. Alphons, who had resigned from the IAS in 2006 and won the Kanjirappally assembly constituency in Kottayam district of Kerala as an independent candidate just 32 days after quitting service, told reporters that he had is joining BJP as he was "most impressed" with the party's development agenda. KJA comes with a tremendous background. I hope he assumes a leadership position in the Kerala BJP and becomes the party’s face in the state. People like him will provide an instant credibility in an otherwise virulently anti BJP state. In fact he has shown the BJP a way. What they need to do is to go out to the states where they are not as strong and recruit people with Alphons like background and nurture them to leadership positions. That way we will have local faces associated with a Conservative national party, which has so far been carrying the incorrect stigma of being a Hindi belt party. The Sibal comments can be read at: http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-jaitleys-hinduvta-remark-exposes-bjps-real-face-says-sibal/20110327.htm The KJA article can be read at: http://www.rediff.com/news/report/former-ias-officer-kj-alphons-joins-bjp/20110324.htm The image is from: http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article33202.ece
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Jaitley, Alphons and The BJP
Wikileaks now reveals that Arun Jaitley told a US diplomat that the Hindutva agenda is “incidental” i.e. it is a matter of opportunism and a ruse to get votes like secularism is for Congress. From the BJP point of view this is a little disconcerting. However, if you know the America, which is a Christian country and has a distrust of all non-Semitic religions then you know that there is a good reason behind it. When you are talking to one of your biggest business partners and worlds sole hyper power (at least for now) then you tell them what they want to hear rather than something that will make them step back and re-evaluate. Around the same time when this event happened, the liberal Indian media was in full attack mode on the BJP. New York Times op-ed had described the BJP and RSS as the Indian KKK (a racist organization in the USA). With that in mind how could Jaitley tell the US diplomat that Hindutva was key to the BJP agenda? Of course it is for the BJP leadership to find out the real truth. If Jaitley was telling the truth to the US diplomat then the BJP supporters need to step back and re-evaluate. Of course no sooner than this was revealed than the Congress attack dogs found an opening. Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday said Arun Jaitley's reported comment that the Bharatiya Janata Party was using Hindutva as an opportunistic tool has exposed the real face of the party and demand an apology from him. Well, what Sibal does not realize is that without Hindutva, they will have no excuse left to criticize the BJP led government. It is in their insidious interest that the BJP has the Hindutva agenda. Amazing isn’t it!! On another note, BJP welcomed K J Alphons to the party fold. Alphons, who had resigned from the IAS in 2006 and won the Kanjirappally assembly constituency in Kottayam district of Kerala as an independent candidate just 32 days after quitting service, told reporters that he had is joining BJP as he was "most impressed" with the party's development agenda. KJA comes with a tremendous background. I hope he assumes a leadership position in the Kerala BJP and becomes the party’s face in the state. People like him will provide an instant credibility in an otherwise virulently anti BJP state. In fact he has shown the BJP a way. What they need to do is to go out to the states where they are not as strong and recruit people with Alphons like background and nurture them to leadership positions. That way we will have local faces associated with a Conservative national party, which has so far been carrying the incorrect stigma of being a Hindi belt party. The Sibal comments can be read at: http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-jaitleys-hinduvta-remark-exposes-bjps-real-face-says-sibal/20110327.htm The KJA article can be read at: http://www.rediff.com/news/report/former-ias-officer-kj-alphons-joins-bjp/20110324.htm The image is from: http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article33202.ece
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