The situation between Gadkari, RSS and BJP is still very fluid. People are changing their stances on the issue on a daily basis. Clean chits are being issued by people with no locus standi. Be that as it may. What is really really flummoxing is that no one seems to be doing the right thing or even remotely interested in the pursuit of the right thing.
I come from a family of RSS / Janasangha / BJP supporters. I used to go to shakhas myself. I am an abashed admirer of the RSS, the work they do and what the organizations stands for. However, I have lost all respect for the current leaders of the RSS. They are not behaving like egoless leaders of a patriotic nationalistic organization. They seem to be out of touch, control freaks who are willing to destroy any advantage that the BJP has over Congress by continuing with Nitin Gadkari whose incompetence is only matched by his ability to make highly irresponsible statements. This man has no business being a leader of a party which wants to be the party of difference. His only function seems to be that of an RSS installed puppet. They want the Congress out based on corruption charges but they are willing to forgive Gadkari the same sins. It would seem that the BJP and the RSS are busy issuing clean chits to Gadkari based on the argument that “everyone does it” and that it is not the corruption in the same vein as the Congress corruption. But that is the Beni Prasad Verma argument who referred to Salman Khurshid’s 76 lakh “Chori” as not real “chori”. Is this how the BJP plans to portray themselves to the voters – Congress lite? Do they think that the voters are going to forgive them like they are forgiving Gadkari?
This is a great opportunity for the BJP to oust the Congress and install a real leader as the PM. They can then make some real differences in the lives of aam aadmi and cement their standing a patriotic nationalistic party. Indulging in war of semantics and speaking legalese to absolve themselves of the responsibility of doing the right thing here which is cutting their ties with Gadkari in the same way as they did with Bangaru Lakshman and others is irresponsible and dangerous.
No one expects Gadkari to do the right thing and resign. He is only interested in his own survival. BJP is a political party and they can also be given some leeway when it comes to taking hard decisions because of political expediency. However, the RSS leaders who are still protecting Gadkari CANNOT be absolved of their sins by commission. I am holding them responsible and will blame them if the BJP loses the 2014 election. Mr. NV Subramanian as expressed it well when he looks upon this as a fight between RSS and Modi. He says:
Institutions cannot change their thinking overnight, so the RSS-Narendra Modi clash will continue for a while. If not Gadkari, RSS will try for another BJP president, a provincial lightweight, so it can have its way. But it won’t work for long. If Narendra Modi and Arun Jaitley play their cards right, they will be Vajpayee-Advani-2 giving BJP its second coming. The RSS leadership would do the country a great favour by stepping out of their way. If they believe and act upon what they say every so often, that the BJP makes its own decisions, it would be evidence of the RSS’s wisdom. And in Narendra Modi, BJP will have its first leader who is not dependent on RSS backing, as he has repeatedly shown in Gujarat. Under him, BJP will come into its own.
We all know what the right thing to do is. We just have to wait and see who does it.
The url for NV Subramanian article:http://www.newsinsight.net/Contestofwills.aspx#page=page-1
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