Jinnah fixation turns fatal for BJP
G ood or bad, only thinking makes it so. So believed Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, and so wishes Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But who knows not, not something, but everything is rotten in the state of BJP. Now that octogenarian Lal Krishna Advani is going to “revitalise” the party under pressure from Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS), BJP hopes of ending its month-long crisis triggered by its former minister Jaswant Singh and his book Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence . But problems within the BJP are more ideological than leadership or the consecutive defeats in the 2001, 2009 general elections. There were dissident voices even before Jaswant episode, but party president Rajnath Singh and Advani were able to handle them. Jaswant exploded it outside the party periphery and there was nothing before the party than expelling him what they thought might be a one-man rebellion. What was Jaswant’s unpardonable guilt? Writing a book with free-thinking? Ac