The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

BJP WILL NATURALLY DEFEND ITS TOP BRASS, BUT IT MUST PAY HEED TO 'WRITING ON THE WALL'

"I think that is not a very mature suggestion you win a lot of elections you lose some elections so if we start throwing out people after every loss we probably will have nobody to left in the party. So, therefore, in a political election a political party losses an election collectively, it wins an election collectively after all when Prime Minister led the campaign and in 2014 we won are we not all in terms of positions and stature beneficiaries of that and therefore tomorrow or today if we lose an election should we not be collectively responsible for that."

What else Arun Jaitley or any other senior BJP leader can say publicly - after the rout the party had in Bihar assembly polls.

What Arun Jaitley yesterday said was basically about shielding Narendra Modi and Amit Shah and that leadership of the party that went into milking the cow in Bihar - but it boomeranged.

Till now, every BJP win, post its grand show in the parliamentary polls last year, was being attributed to Amit Shah and every loss, in different bypolls, was being conveniently ignored. The first big loss that came in Delhi early this year, was dismissed as an aberration with debatable points like 'Congress no show', 'RSS disinterests' and the 'Kiran Bedi factor'.  

But, with Bihar now, that 'aberration' can safely be termed a trend and this time, it will be difficult for Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to ignore the 'writing on the wall'.

Amit Shah runs BJP because he is a trusted Narendra Modi man and BJP leaders trust Narendra Modi because of his 'vote mobilization' appeal. Narendra Modi realizes this and also this that he cannot pull a successful draw every time, in every assembly election.

West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam are due next year and the mother of all, Uttar Pradesh, is to see assembly polls in April-May 2017 - and BJP has no chances in all these states except Assam - Narendra Modi knows that.

True, BJP cannot accept it publicly as reflected further in Rajnath Singh's words, "Winning and losing is part of the game. One cannot pin the blame on the PM. We couldn't understand the mood (in the state). Social equations were against us in Bihar. I have addressed at least 50 rallies. "

Defending Amit Shah he said, "In BJP, a person can remain President for two consecutive terms. There is no bar. The present tenure of Amit Shah is an ad-hoc period. I mean he is completing my left—over period since the last one-and-a-half years. He can be regular President for two more terms. Unke to 6 saal bache hain (he has six years left)."

It's all logical and practical what all they are saying. BJP will have to weather hostile and scathing observations from even its senior leaders - L. K. Advani, Murali Manohar Joshi, Yashwant Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha, Shanta Kumar and so on - as we saw this evening - because they all saw dead ends of their political careers with the dawn of Narendra Modi as the only powerful leader of BJP.

They cannot and they should not hit back on that. The best that BJP can do is to remain silent, do an honest introspection and carry out the necessary rectifications it must carry out now.

Even if it chooses to shield its top brass for this Bihar debacle!

How these outcomes reflect on BJP governance and functioning only time will tell.

So far, the day-2 post the Bihar disaster, has given us conflicting signals.

Continuing its run of controversial decisions, especially around communal issues, the party went all out to oppose the 'Tipu Sultan birth anniversary' observation by Congress run Karnataka government. Most of us, especially in our generation, know Tipu Sultan as a good, patriotic Indian, thanks to the Doordarshan serial, and we are happy with that. We don't need unnecessary controversy (or politics), either by BJP or by Congress (after all Congress is also trying to play communal card of appeasement of announcing the Tipu Sultan event after all these years).

On the other hand, the Narendra Modi led government took a much needed, important step this evening. The government relaxed the much delayed foreign direct investment (FDI) limits in 15 significant sectors and we should see this as the beginning of a long delayed reform process.

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/