The President & the Pinochet!

MANAGEMENT GURU

Advani uses Rajnath to reassert that he is live and kicking
What’s so novel about BJP’s new team? Isn’t it old wine in a new bottle after all? The latest reshuffling of the BJP ranks is in fact a manifestation of the ensuing internal turf wars in a party once famous for being disciplined and cadre based.

The latest reshuffle needs to be viewed from the perspective of shifting equations between the BJP and its mentor RSS. One instance that reflects the increasing tensions between the two is the replacement of the organisational secretary Sanjay Joshi (considered to be a bridge between the RSS & BJP) by Ramlal, a low profile party functionary. More importantly, the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been eased out from the parliamentary board of the party. Media savvy, Arun Jaitley, has been asked to handle operations as secretary of the party’s parliamentary committee rather than hopping from one television studio to another. The new spokesperson is Rajiv Pratap Rudy. And Ananth Kumar has been appointed as the secretary of the election committee.

Ironically, Rajnath Singh, who's been complaining that Manmohan Singh is being remote controlled by Sonia Gandhi, is perhaps still oblivious of his own predicament. The very fact that all the important positions have been filled up by loyalists of the former party president Lal Krishna Advani, amply proves that the current BJP president is no better than a Pinochet.

The party spokesperson Praksah Javadekar, while talking to B&E, denied sidelining of Murli Manohar Joshi as mere speculation and Modi's removal from parliamentary committee "far from being a demotion.” But it is not hard to discern that the reshuffle is an attempt by Advani (firing from Rajnath Singh’s shoulder) to send a message to the Sangh leadership that he is still a force to reckon with as far as the BJP is concerned.

Edit bureau: Rajan Prakash

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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