BJP May Have Lost the Battle but Certainly Not the War
by Sushil Harlalka
Let this message sink deep down in the cadres of the party. It is very difficult to be brave and it is easy to submit. Let the cadres choose.I am sure they will not disappoint.
Now let us talk about the dreaded results very briefly. In my opinion, the very broad message from the results are as under:-
1. The electorate does not want bickering and negative remarks. Talk of what you have to offer in convincing manner and leave it at that;
2. The youth are the future. Involve more young people, who can think like the young—-their aspirations,their expectations and then let the young do the talking;
3. Allies`are like Albatrosses. They are not reliable and dependable, at least not all of them. They sometimes do more damage than they actually help. It would be better to have confidence in ourselves & do away with them barring a few who are not one man parties;
4. Why is there no anti incumbency in States like Bihar Delhi, Gujarat, etc. The message is loud and clear. Do work and you don’t need to say anything else. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. I think this should be our mantra.This should be our entire concentration.
I would like to elaborate and emphasise only on this point. DO WORK IN YOUR AREAS AND YOU ARE BOUND TO GET THE FRUITS.Your work will itself do the needful when you want it to. The electorate can see and will not forget what is seen by them. At the end of the day, when it really comes down to the nitty gritty, what the voter is ultimately going to see is what has he/she got or will get by his/her choice. And if you have been visible all the time– at his time of need– there will be no need to say anything else. No need`to spend monies on costly ads, costly campaignings, costly propaganda. No need of mud slinging and slandering. All this may sound a bit too idealistic. But if you really think about it, our answer is right in there;
5. Muslims are a strength which can no more be antagonised at the same time not wooed either. The right approach to them is very essential. This needs very delicate and deft handling and a highly skilled and chisseled almost clinical ‘operation’.If a detailed study is done of the voting pattern it will amply show that Muslims are no more a minority and even less Voters who can be neglected.
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35 Responses to “BJP May Have Lost the Battle but Certainly Not the War”
BJP needs to revamp its message and renew its appeal among the middle classes in urban India. The way to do this is to start talking of uniting people which can earn the BJP rave reviews in the media. For far too long, BJP has been railed at as the party that encourages “division” of people.
THE BEST WAY FOR BJP TO DO THIS IS TO START AN AGGRESSIVE NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST CASTE POLITICS. MAKE “THINK BEYOND CASTE” THE MANTRA OF THE BJP. IF DONE THE RIGHT WAY, THIS WILL CAPTURE THE IMAGINATION OF THE MASSES, MAKE INDIA A BETTER NATION AND YIELD DIVIDENDS FOR BJP.
Hi Sushil,
On your 5th point, we have to educate minorities that Congress is creating this fear of BJP for them so that they can win votes, they will do nothing for them.
BJP stands for Appeasement to none and Justice and development to all.
Being Pro-Majority doest not mean anti-minority. Actually is other way, if a party cannot help the majority of the people how can they help the minority.
Hence Congress is good for no-one neither Majority nor Minority.
Regards,
S.Chatterjee
Reason for defeat:
# it is not people liked MANMOHAN they disliked Advani.
# Some of the Congress Schemes such as NREGA etc.
# Little bit of Rahul effect..No effect of Sonia & MMS.
# BJP could not communicate its message
# Deviation of Modern Hindutva..Image of Hardliner Hindutva.
# Stability and credibility differential
# Modi definitely helped…but varun did not help
# Some local state level issues and congress grass root entire India Base.
Many guys who would have been carried away by the Media created image of Rahul Gandhi and the global loyality towards Gandhi family are now advising BJP to become like Congress and start following all its traits. Guys its fine you voted for congress but don’t advise BJP to become like Congress. Jansangh and BJP have lost almost all elections since 1952 and have not swayed away from their principles. When Public has to select us they will select for what we are. We messed up handling Media,one mistake which we did and we need to correct that.Rest we do not have to get carried away so much by this loss. BJP has to be prepared to loose many elections in future but stick to its principles otherwise Congress is always there and anyhow Indian public seems to be addicted to it.
Till Hindus are there in india, BJP is there and BJP is the only party for all Hindus including Dalits. It doesn’t do only lip service or give bread crumbs. It makes Mayawatis as Chief Minister.
BJP is the best friend of minorities and hope they will realize some day.
We have done everything honestly for Good Governance,in fact BJP taught what good Governance is from the days of Kalyan Singh in U.P. We now have to do only [b]One thing Attack the Media Hard[/b].
What is more hurting is why does the BJP appears so weak before the Media. They seem to behave like a rejected lover trying hard to woo his beloved once more and his beloved is thinking of only betraying and humiliating him.
Why a strong party like BJP with Government in so many states can’t humiliate and attack Media when smaller parties like Samajwadi party and RJD can take a hard stance against Media.
BJP Leaders should be given some crash courses by Professor Amar Singh. The way he is aatacking Barkha Dutt and Veer Sanghvi is really Music to ears. I wish our leaders can do that. We have to finish the credibility of Media. All 60 years of dirty politics will become clear before the public and in particular of last 8 years
If the so called educated Middle class who have seen that BJP has a track record of good Governance and can turn around sick states like Bihar and Orissa and who have seen the bad rule of UPA loaded with inflation and terrorism can be fooled by a smart Media trick like Varun Gandhi one then they are even worst than the illiterates who sell their votes for Alcohol and money. God save this country then. A small incident like Varun’s speech which is hyped much by Media can force you to defeat BJP then BJP is better off in opposition.
People hate Advani,this is funny,why do Hindus have to hate Advani Ji. In Independent India,he was the only one who fought for them.
Advani ji didn’t realized that those who have silently tolerated Slavery of foreign rulers for thousand years will not rise from their slumber by his idealistic talks/vision/honesty/integrity/good work etc. In fact such a community will be deeply cynical of anybody freeing them from their slavery and will try to find faults in a person who is procaliming to be honest or who tries to practice values and display honesty and integrity. You have to get hold of this slavery tissue and manipulate it rather than asking people to get rid of it
BJP should get the book of Advaniji i.e “My Country My Life” translated into all regional languages and get it distributed among kids and youth. This book clearly proves that how much secular BJP is and what vision Advaniji has for India.
We have to start grooming Youth from now itself.
I personally does not believe in blaming Varun Gandhi or Narendra modi.Its all nonsense. Sir;dont you think the punch line of BJP “Determined leader….decissive Goverment” is the worst possible quote used for election purpose.Dose Advanee is the one and only point of attraction for the nation?Do you think the country love in individual self advertisement? I am a strong supporter of BJP.But shocked when I found this quote under the board of BJP/Advanee. For God shake dont pass the blame game on Varun or Narendra Modi. Advanee jee was the wrong choice.The advertisement strategy was the worst one.conflict with in the organisation fueled the issues.Why Rajnath singh is the President?Who knows him in except UP?Does he a National figure?Where are the main election issues?where are the young players in the party?
Allies are the real scumbags. During the election Nitish Kumar made a national statement that he would not want Narendra Modi in Bihar and would not share a platform with him either. Was it not stab in the back and betrayal to BJP. It had a real negative effect on BJP nationally.
It was not that BJP did anything seriously wrong in their campaign but they lost the election because Christian evangelical and Mahamedan funded English media carried out ruthless and persistent campaign against BJP and the subsurvient mentality Hindus of all classes as alaways fell into the trap.
If BJP needs to survive then it is the media they need to target first both through ownership and exposing them bravely.
If BJP listens to the comments above , we will never have a hindu rastra. Dont any one gets it BJP is trying to B team of congress and lost the plot. not one of it Hindu rastra idea has it done.
and god damn, stop being sympathetic about being a Hindu , god damn,
this is ridiculous.
we are a Hindu Nationalist Party and the media will not change that so be Hindutva
Already we have followed the secular path for the last 10 years and we have screwed Hindutva.
If BJP cannot promise and maintain the HIndu Rastra , please dissolve it self.
Time to destroy the English media in India completely. They are one of the root causes of trouble in India.
BJP has always handled Media very badly. Probbaly like othe middle Class guys they got carried away by the English speaking skills and sophistication of Media. ironically BJP Govt only started 24/7 News concept. Not only English Media there is Hindi version of NDTV/CNN-IBN and even Star News.
They are equally Anti-BJP.
Media has fooled them in Kandhar issue,Gujrat Riots issue and they easily fell Pray for it.Why did they get moved by crying relatives popped up by Media(NDTV),so that this could be used as symbol of weakness later.
hy a strong party like BJP with Government in so many states can’t humiliate and attack Media when smaller parties like Samajwadi party and RJD can take a hard stance against Media.
BJP Leaders should be given some crash courses by Professor Amar Singh. The way he is aatacking Barkha Dutt and Veer Sanghvi is really Music to ears. I wish our leaders can do that. We have to finish the credibility of Media. All 60 years of dirty politics will become clear before the public and in particular of last 8 years if BJP does so.
I think that Indian electionn 2009 for the lok sabha is a rigged one. Therefore, no meaning in advising Bjp or left about what went wrong.
More than one month long election schedule & a congress friendly election commissioner can do wonder.
In fact rigging the voting machine is easier than tampering with ballot papers. It is time we should reject deomcracy & a miltary ruler like Prasad purohit should take power by force and send MM singh, Pratibha Patil & Navin chawla to Jail
I have seen a lot of emotional outbursts but somehow feel that BJP is still lost in sorrow. After previous election rout the BJP tool nearily 3 yrs to talk psotovely.
BJP should wake up from this self imposed slumber. Let us go and look at the future in a positive way.
start strengthening the organisation in all states. monitor the units closely in each location for activities. lend support to them and take issues by the horns. it is time to show the nation what a Nirnayak Opposition can do. Let them know that BJP means business.
seeing a lot of articles by good writers, but it is not whipping enough to pull BJP out of atma chintan into work, back to basics, a future vision strong enough to have more states under BJP rule with good governance.
also it wont be a bad idea to have a shadow government to take care of states under BJP rule.
immediate focus to be on states going to polls obiviously. by next election we should have at least another 4 states under BJP rule
BEWARE Of Congressis in this Forum !!!
There is a great master trick of Congressis and they have fooled public by this and even Media has learned it quite well. Trick is that you curse Congress a lot but say that others
are equally bad. This is a trick to produce the TINA(There is no other alternative) factor. These kind of people including Media will talk of some shortcommings of Congress and then will paint the Opposition as Real Devil. It is same thing as they did during Bombay Attack of 26/11. Make people cynical of all politicians and the ultomate loosers will be Left and BJP because they stand for something however wrong or right it is. Since Congress stands for nothing ,people can’t hate it strongly and hence it becomes
the default choice.
Sushma Swaraj will be a sitting Duck for Congress and Media. All her comments like “Shaving her head” if Sonia wins will be played again and again over all channels. She will finish BJP,original to two seats.Dr Murali manohar Joshi would be projected as Old and failed HRD minister by Media.
We need Narendra Modi as President and Shivraj Singh Chauhan as Prime Minister. It is a Dalit/OBC combination and Media’s ego will be satisfied for some time that they have defeated Modi ji. Modi ji has long career and public memory is short may be he can be candidate for 2019.Media wants to see Modi humbled and let them have this pleasure.
BJP should make Shahnawaj Hussain who is young and from Muslim community as Leader of Opposition for next 2 years. This will cool down Muslims a bit,will give BJP sufficient time for transition.
This will also Puncture Media’s and Congress campaign for painting BJP as communal.
randheer is a Congressman for suggesting that Modi should lose.
Rajesh Kumar Tripathy, I agree with you on some of your points. Why was Rajnath Singh elected as the party chief ?. He failed poorly in UP assembly elections and was still continuing as Party chief. Advaniji may get respect as a senior leader however, he lacks killers instinct now to take party to a higher level. We need some body with a killer’s instinct who can take a party as a leader. I think Jaitley will be a good choice as the party president.
Blaming Modi and Varun is not at all good. Incase of Modi, we need to wait for the SIT investigation to complete about his involvement in Godhra Riots.
Dutta:
I am a BJPite by birth till death but with a Congressi Mind !!!. Our Main Objective should be to clean up this country and establish the Country of Advani Ji’s dream. Modi Ji will be the PM ultimately. He has 20 years. But first we have to think like Congress some time to beat it.
We have to take a step back,blunt down Media’s attack and Congressi tricks. We have to make Media loose its credibility in next 2-3 years and then attack with full force.
The way Media has overworked to destroy BJP’s image,if we make Media loose its credibility,our effort will be evry less as everything will become transparent before the public.
why the BJP lost in Rajasthan it is not because of the congress work but because of the BJP rank and its leaders working against the party itself. The same thing happened in the assembly elections.I think they have not learnt any lesson from their defeat in assembly election.I reside in the BJP strong area of KOTA district and I am a strong follower of the BJP since last forty years.The happening which I saw during the assembly election gave me the above observation. I am very sad about the work of their ranks , district and state level leaders of Rajasthan .I hereunder mention the reasons why they lost both the elections which needs to be carefully looked upon.
The work of Vasundhara Raje govt. was good and delivered good performance on all the fields. she was very bold and strict administrator and never let any leaders to interfere in her decisions. This angered the senior leaders of Rajasthan bjp like Shekhawat,Jaswant singh,Hari shankar bhabara,Kailash meghwal,Lalit kishore chaturvedi,Kirori mal meena,Raghuvir singh kaushal,Ghanshyam tiwari,Om prakash mathur and ofcourse the RSS hardcore and its caders.These all stelwards jointly worked against Raje and were instrumental in the defeat of candidates selected by Raje whome they consider loyal to her and thus bring her down resulting her defeat.This was the story of assembly elections. During the Parliament elections, as a reaction Raje’s men worked against her above rivals wherever they were fighting the election. The people of Rajasthan were watching this episode with disbelief and taught them a lesson thus cruely bringing them down to four seats only.
Is this the way BJPwants to come into power? please comment.
I think there is an excellent suggestion from Randheer on electing Shahnawaj Hussain for leader of Apposition and cooling down the Muslim anger. Also, BJP can include more moderate , educated, intellectual minded muslims to work for the party. This will kill the Media and Congress at one shot for painting BJP as communal. Every time, I see a congress man and Media anchor calling BJP communal is really really heart wrenching to me as a BJP supporter.
Jagdish Vijay, the events in Rajasthan are really heart breaking to watch as a BJP supporter. What would be the solution of BJP in Rajasthan ?. Loosing people’s mandate is worst thing for a party. All these so called leaders of BJP and Vasundhara Raje should come together , analyse the results and elect some body who can lead them unitedly. If this doesn’t happen, 2014 will again repeat in Rajasthan. Rajasthan has lost the party a whopping 20 lok sabha seats in 2009. Shame on Rajnath and Shame on Advaniji for not being able to resolve the crisis and potraying dubiously that he is a strong leader .
The simple question, Why can’t BJP attack the Media left and right whenever they try to paint BJP as a communal party ?. Is it some thing difficult to do ?. Why can’t they do some thing to silence the media people ?. The amount of damage done by Media in this elections is too large that it will take some real hard work by BJP to undo the damage.
Enough of articles… and advices by one and all… BJP and all its leaders should work with one goal and unity… win most of the assembly elections in the future… no more minority bashing… no more riots… pure development with vision… 2014 is not far… Read below…
*** The Importance of Small and Power of Insignificant ***
People who have studied Ramayan or listened carefully to the particular episode of construction of Setubandh Rameshwaram, may recollect that there is one instance when the big monkeys were carrying big stones from far away places to the site and then after getting touched by hands of Nal and Neel, arranging them to make the floating bridge.
A monkey saw a small squirrel wetting its body in nearby sea, then rolling in the sand, and then rushing to bridge construction site, and then shaking body, then again rushing to sea and repeating this cycle. The big monkey got curious and invited attention of others who collected to see this amusing exercise of a small squirrel.
One of the big monkeys asked the small squirrel; “Hey, little squirrel, what’s wrong with you? Have you gone mad? What are you doing?” The little squirrel replied; “I am worshiping my Lord Shri Ram by trying to give my humble co-operation in making of bridge.”
Listening the reply every monkey started laughing and called others too, to enjoy the biggest joke. Every body started making fun of the little squirrel and said, “See, how big stones we are collecting from far away places and bringing to sea beach, and our so big army of great monkeys is working ceaselessly to make such a long bridge. Leave aside co-operation, your few gains of sand are not even visible when dropped on stones brought by us.”
Seeing the cacophony and stoppage of work, Shri Ram arrived at the spot to inquire what is going on. He was explained the endeavor of small squirrel with ridicule laced humor. Shri Ram stepped forward, lifted the squirrel and put in his left palm. Caressing gently the squirrel by right hand, Shri Ram said, “I acknowledge your service and I am pleased with you.”
In Ramayan, Shri Ram has placed his hand and caressed only three. One is Vulture King Jataayuu; who did his duty without being asked. The second is little Squirrel; who did duty without being asked. And the third is Hanuman ji, who did duty without being asked.
The other noticeable and common thing between all those three worshipers of Shri Ram was that none of them expected any thing in return. The army of monkeys were working on behalf of their King Sugreeva who had an obligation of becoming King by help of Shri Ram, and he was repaying it by joining the job.
The other example is in Mahabharat. After the RaajSooya Yagna by Yudhishtir, in which all great Saints of Bharat participated, King Yudhishtir was surprised to see a mongoose whose half body was normal and half was golden.
That mongoose was rolling over and over on the earth where great Saint sat and kept their feet. As thousands of great Saints had attended that RaajSooya yagna, mongoose was extremely tired but did not stop rolling body at the earth where those Saints kept their feet.
King Yudhishtir followed that mongoose in the Yagna-Bhoomi and requested him to stop and tell what was that matter and reason for rolling body on earth of entire Yagna-Bhoomi.
The mongoose said, “O Great King Yudhishtir, there was a poor Brahmin family who had not eaten for four days. When they collected a little wheat flour and made bread, a guest came and they offered their bread to guest. I happened to pass over that few grains of wheat flour dropped on earth while making bread and my body became golden. Unfortunately the flour on the earth was not enough to make my whole body golden. So I am looking for great Saints whose Charan-raj (dust of feet) could make me fully golden. But I am very sorry to say that even in your RaajSooya Yagna where all great Saints of Bharat participated, none could match the greatness of sacrifice of that poor Brahmin.”
(The) above two examples from Ramayan and Mahabharat teaches us “Importance of Small” and the “Power of Insignificant”.
…The Importance of Small, and the Power of Insignificant can not be ignored. Remember, Shri Ram was pleased with Vulture King Jataayuu, the little Squirrel and Shri Hanuman ji; only because they did their Bhakti (Pooja = Duty = Dharma) without being asked for and without expecting any thing in return
The question is “Is BJP leadership or any top leaders noticing these comments, suggestions and taking steps,or actions to improve and strengthen the party ? “.
I been seening lot of comments from fellow BJP followers whether the party is taking heed of our suggestions and outburst, First of all, this is not a BJP site but a BJP supporters site, therefore its the responsibility of the one organizing this site to take the matter to the party, make sure someone in the top ranks gets the gist of what is happening here. The only thing positive about this post is the topic, i for one vehemently disagree with the kind of stand the author suggests with regards to minorities, if we can get those agnostic, ill-bred, modernised youth into our cultural way, they will see clearly what BJP stands for.
I am a staunch hindu and I feel that BJP has let us down very badly, be it Atal Behari Vajapayee or L.K.Advani. It is high time BJP is dissolved and a new pro-hindutva party is formed by booting out all spineless leaders. Who will take the lead?
The BJP lost the 2009 elections long before the elections took place.For the last five years we never came to know where the party was.The congress was the ruling party whereas the opposition place was occupied by the left.The BJP presence was neither heard nor felt.The only time we heard about the bjp leaders was when their vicious in fighting would spill out in the open.The BJP could never position itself properly.Come elections and the leader started saying that advani was the solution for the country-but this hardly ever looked real.They tried to create a mirage around which they wanted to attaract the voters and failed miserably.Look at all the so called top leaders in the bjp and youy find that all of them need a safe seat to win.Look at Rajnath Singh.Can someone point out his utility for the bjp.He is a big zero.People like Kalyan Singh,Madanlal Khurana,Uma Bharati who enjoyed mass support were done in by rootless and useless leaders like Rajnath Singh.How then will you connect with the masses?There was a total disconnect and the results prove it.So far as the minority community leaders like Syed Shah Nawaz Hussain and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi are concerned they are nothoing more than buffoons.One lost his deposit in the elections and the other needed RSS to help him pull through.They do not have the credibility to ensure that even a single muslim would vote for the bjp because of them.And remember how Naqvi with his idiotic comment on marchers in mumbai helped alienate a large nos of upwardly mobile from the bjp.We need credible muslim leaders not jokers.
sanjay kumar sharma:
And remember how Naqvi with his idiotic comment on marchers in mumbai helped alienate a large nos of upwardly mobile from the bjp.We need credible muslim leaders not jokers.
Many Congress Leaders pass many more nasty comments than that. You can’t imagine what all leaders of parties like RJD/SP/BSP/DMK say. It is just that Media has to hype one small saying from BJP leaders.
Media will talk of some shortcommings of Congress
and then will paint the Opposition as Real Devil. It is same thing as they did during Bombay Attack of 26/11. Make people cynical of all politicians and the ultomate loosers will be Left and BJP because they stand for something however wrong or right it is. Since Congress stands for nothing ,people can’t hate it strongly and hence it becomes the default choice.
Yes BJP leaders are at fault for their affinity to give sound bytes to Media.
hi….just provide ticket to those who has got respect in there area, appoint mba’s as strategist. fix your man in the congress party… play a good politics….. raise good issue like MUSLIM LEAGUE IS WITH CONGRESS AND SHIVSENA WITH BJP it shows that how congress is exploiting hindus. i saw that some of the friends want to appease muslims….. brother your r also a hindu which forced you to join bjp ignore muslims
there are a lots of group discussion in the park in the morning time during poll so be alert put you man in them(but not aggressive)… that man should be seemed to have no politics back ground
good commentator should be contacted by bjp so that they can provide good strategy during election
Hemraj Khatik, if BJP can contact a good commentator it will be a big achievement for the party. I don’t believe the BJP leadership is accessing this website other than the http://www.bjp.org.
I sincerly wish a good commentator is given the chance to be contacted by BJP and be taken advice in forming a strategy for BJP.
Do yo think the biased Media and Congress will ever allow BJP to appear moderate. BJP branded as communal is necessary for survival of both. Lot of Mangalore Pub Attacks could be staged and some fake Ram Sene could be made to make BJP appear communcal. Lot of Congressis themselves can fake as Bajrangis and attack Pubs,churches and Womens and Media can give a 24/7 coverage to that.
Please understand Minorities are sufficiently scared is in strategic interest of Congress. If minorities are not scared then won’t they vote for BJP,what is need for Congress then.
Even Media wants to scare Minorities otherwise they would not have played Varun’s video 1000 times.
Congress will also create lot of fake minorities and keep them scared,like UPites and Biharis in Bombay,Pub going womens. Congress will keep the social tension growing as then only
it can appear as a Party which does the balancing act. BJP has to understand this and devise its strategies.