Congress responsible for BJP’s upsurge
This is extraordinary! Congress and not any of the deeds of the BJP leadership is responsible for sudden upsurge in the prospects of BJP during the forthcoming Assembly elections in various states of the country. So much so that the party leadership, which in spite of its most optimistic thinking, was not even dreaming of coming back to power barely a couple of months back.
And the change in people’s mindset has happened largely due to several mistakes committed by senior Congress leaders like Arjun Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad and even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Arjun Singh gave a burning issue to the BJP by demanding reservation for the Muslims. Manmohan Singh too helped rally the Hindus together by further speaking in this regard. This was perhaps aimed at gaining the favour of the Muslim community but the very step backfired and BJP got a Muslim appeasement card to flash at voters who earlier voted for the party but were now reluctant to do so due to its changing stance on Ram Janambhoomi and other issues like corruption when the BJP was at power. Congress gained little from this stand as the Muslims are still eyeing these statements with suspicion, particularly because the Congress has not spelt out how it aims to achieve its aforementioned objectives despite the presence of a clear-cut ruling from Supreme Court that prohibits reservation on religious grounds.
Ghulam Nabi Azad further worsened the situation when he came openly in support of Afzal Guru. Those who are aware of the dynamics of political functioning know fully that if the Congress had really wanted Afzal Guru’s death sentence to be revoked, it could have easily done so by making a surrogate NGO do the groundwork rather than its own leaders. But Ghulam Nabi’s statement gave an indicator to the hard line Hindus that Congress was following the path of Muslim appeasement, thus leading to concentration of votes in favour of the BJP.
This is extraordinary! Congress and not any of the deeds of the BJP leadership is responsible for sudden upsurge in the prospects of BJP during the forthcoming Assembly elections in various states of the country. So much so that the party leadership, which in spite of its most optimistic thinking, was not even dreaming of coming back to power barely a couple of months back.
And the change in people’s mindset has happened largely due to several mistakes committed by senior Congress leaders like Arjun Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad and even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Arjun Singh gave a burning issue to the BJP by demanding reservation for the Muslims. Manmohan Singh too helped rally the Hindus together by further speaking in this regard. This was perhaps aimed at gaining the favour of the Muslim community but the very step backfired and BJP got a Muslim appeasement card to flash at voters who earlier voted for the party but were now reluctant to do so due to its changing stance on Ram Janambhoomi and other issues like corruption when the BJP was at power. Congress gained little from this stand as the Muslims are still eyeing these statements with suspicion, particularly because the Congress has not spelt out how it aims to achieve its aforementioned objectives despite the presence of a clear-cut ruling from Supreme Court that prohibits reservation on religious grounds.
Ghulam Nabi Azad further worsened the situation when he came openly in support of Afzal Guru. Those who are aware of the dynamics of political functioning know fully that if the Congress had really wanted Afzal Guru’s death sentence to be revoked, it could have easily done so by making a surrogate NGO do the groundwork rather than its own leaders. But Ghulam Nabi’s statement gave an indicator to the hard line Hindus that Congress was following the path of Muslim appeasement, thus leading to concentration of votes in favour of the BJP.
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