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Jinnah, Jaswant Singh & Repositioning BJP

Speculative post, this one. The plausibility of what I write is for you to judge. Consider the following points:

  • BJP has found it tough to woo Muslim voters who form a significant chunk of the total voters
  • BJP lost the recent 2009 Loksabha elections badly
  • Mr. Advani & BJP are looking for able successors / likeable faces
  • Many of the top leaders in BJP are perceived to be hardline Hindutva followers
  • Many leaders in the ranks of BJP have an RSS background which automatically render them as hardline Hindutva followers
  • Indians are realizing gradually that religions can't be the base of progress and therefore, political parties based on religions can't shape the future of India
  • Jaswant Singh handled the critical portfolios – finance, defence and external affairs (hope I recall correctly here ) – reasonably well when BJP was in power earlier

Few more points can be added, all to ask one question: how does BJP make itself look really secular and present a face which can win hearts of people from all walks/religions of life?

The expelling of Jaswant Singh from BJP post the release of his controversial book (on Jinnah and India's partition) could just be one event in a series to transform and resposition BJP and make it ready for the next elections. How?

This book will be read and talked about, that's for sure. And followers of Islam might start looking at Jaswant Singh favourably. Based on Jaswant Singh's credentials, he would be re-inducted into BJP and would be promoted as one of the potential successors to Mr. Advani.

Rest, you can imagine…

One response to “Jinnah, Jaswant Singh & Repositioning BJP”

  1. Manish Kumar Sharma Avatar
    Manish Kumar Sharma

    Jaswant: India-Partition-Independence
    Maybe there is a secret understanding between the congress and the BJP. What’s the point in maligning our independence heroes? I mean spilt mik is spilt milk. What can we do? You can criticize the congress for a lot of things but beyond a point for national considerations, you cannot. And maybe one shouldn’t
    As long as they keeping making people like ‘Manmohan Singh’ the Prime Minister, I am quite o.k. with whatever they have done. I am even prepared to not pre-judge Rahul Gandhi. I want him to be pitted against the likes of Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Narendra Modi ( He is a good politician; I am sure he will very soon become a ‘want’ from a ‘necessity’). I also want LK Advani to continue as L.O for another 2-3 yrs.
    And btw how did this apparent threat to Muslims prop up suddenly when there was none for centuries. Come on ‘Jinnah’ wasn’t naive and we are not ‘naïve’ either. ‘Jinnah’ wanted to be a hero without actually doing anything heroic. Jinnah was no saint: he was the exact opposite. He was a demon and that’s the reason he has been demonized
    Mr. Jaswant Singh, go to Pakistan and push for a re-union. Translate your words into action. I guess you will do justice to your book only if you go and do this.

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