People have been reading a lot about BJP these days, they do have some understanding of what is happening with BJP, here are my views about BJP.
Advani is responsible for the last two failures in general elections and for the internal party disputes. How? Simple, even while Vajpayee was prime minister, Advani tried to push himself ahead of Vajpayee by taking up the deputy PM's post, and it has been reported in leading newpapers that Advani's arch rival within the party has been Vajpayee. If BJP had won the election and was able to run the govt for 5 years, it was mostly because of the Vajpayee's public appeal and to certain extent backed up by Advani's administrative adeptness. Advani's gate crashing to the post of deputy PM, was not a good example for the party cadres, it symoblised that party posts were for grabs, and hence the genesis of disputes within BJP.
Advani could have saved BJP by projecting Vajpayee as PM candidate in the next election that followed, but he was too greedy and shot in his won foot by pushing himself as the PM candidate. Efforts that Advani had toiled in building up the party is now getting washed by his own selfishness. He perhaps was obsessed with placing himself in the league of great leaders of the country. He gave more importance to himself than the work that would have made him a great leader. If he had valued his work more than himself, he would not have bothered whether people remembered or not. A little bit of sacrifice on Advani's side would have saved BJP from loosing and he would have been remembered as the great stand up guy at least. Advani wanted to become the boss and not the stand up guy, the rest of the cadres now want to be the boss, and they don't see any taste in being a stand up guy. Any great organizations strength has been those who's motive was not to be in the limelight, but to stand as the structural support to the organization without scumbbing to their selfish desire to dwell in the glory of leadership.
The obsession of glory has brought shame to Advani.
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