Saswat Panigrahi
Exactly 30 hours after LK Advani quit
all party posts, triggering a crisis in the BJP, the octogenarian leader
finally relented. A truce between the party and the senior most leader reached
after RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat spoke to Advani and
asked him to respect the decision of the BJP Parliamentary Board, which
rejected his resignation. Advani had no choice but to step back. The crisis in
the BJP seems to be blown over at least for now.
But what prompted Advani to
resign? Though the BJP patriarch in his resignation letter to the party
president Rajnath Singh maintained that he had been “finding it difficult to
reconcile with the current functioning of the party”, however, it is an open
secret that Advani was opposed to Narendra
Modi‘s appointment as BJP Central Election Campaign Committee
Chairman.
Modi is riding on the crest
of a massive popularity wave and has become the natural choice of the cadre for
the face of 2014 election. It’s not only the BJP cadre, for the first time in
India’s political history, it’s the people of the country who want to see
somebody as the Prime Minister. But Advani is unable to reconcile with the very
fact.
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