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Who Needs the Reprieve - Modi or Vajpayee? I.K.Shukla ------------------------------------------------------------------- Modi's ouster may or may not be in the cards. At least not yet. But the timing is significant. Pontification from Prini (Manali) where Vajpayee has his abode of Meanderings, has played havoc, though the flurry of damage- control has signally added to the confusion instead of clearing the air. VHP has come out acerbically in defence of Modi. So has RSS, if less viciously, but quite firmly. Both agree that the debacle of BJP can be laid not at the door of Modi, but appeasement of Muslims and abandonment of Hindutva. Others, however, think contra. Abandonment of muslims, and appeasement of Hindutva cost the BJP dearly. But, admiiting this much would render VHP-RSS-Bajrang Dal jobless, penniless, powerless. And if joblessness in the country has to be reduced, so posit Hindutva honchos, they better begin with themselves. They should be in the job of big time thievery and amassing wealth. Nothing should come in the way. Hence Mumbai. The choice of the venue of saffro jamboree is meaningful. Big business has to be courted and assured, it has to be cajoled to contribute to Dharma. All fascism has had fat cats funding it. The tribal belt has received attention from VHP just in time. Its work would expand there. Vajpayee may be marginalised in Mumbai. Or, his stay will henceforward depend on the sufferance of Moditva, duly, if not too ceremoniously, rehabilitated and hoisted aloft. In defeat and desperation, BJP and its other synonyms, are least likely to abandon or abate their addiction for lethal and feral Moditva. If AdVani's has to come up, Modi will remain a constitutive element of the Hindutva nostrum. It works bothways. Today AdVani, tomorrow Modi, can be at the helm. Vajpayee's ill health will handicap him in this rat race. But nobody should yet discount his craftiness. He left a leeway open for himself. Gujarat riots were not that bad. Its exploitation by the Congress was bad. So said the fogy. Films of the carnage and genocide (which Hindutva did its damnedest worst to bar and ban) were exhibited abroad, says the drone. So the blame does not attach to Modi, nor BJP, nor Hindutva. In Vajpayee's and Hindutva's logic, it attaches to Congress and other secular parties, which queered the pitch for BJP. I wonder: were Congress, and secularists that influential? Vajpayee may yet have some surprises up his sleeves. He said he would not give UPA more than six months. Too, he asserted, he would not sit in Oppositionfor for 5 years. Other luminaries of Hindu Taliban say, two years is all they would allow UPA. Something seems cooking covertly. Or, conspiratorially? It is this disarray that impels the BJP to adopt phoney patriotism ( versus Sonia) or pietistic pomposity(tainted Ministers). What I want the Congress is to accede to the demand of the BJP by removing all the tainted MPs from the two house of Parliament immediately. Then we can watch the BJP wailing like beasts, in their own natural grunts and groans. |
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