NAIDU ON BJP LEADERSHIP
Press Trust Of India
Published on Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 15:31, Updated on Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 16:06 in Politics » Political News section
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president M Venkaiah Naidu said the party will not contest the next Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of LK Advani.
He emphasised that it would be logical for the party to get a new leadership at that juncture.
“Advani is not going to contest the next General Elections (2014). We are not going to fight the next elections under his leadership,” Naidu told Karan Thapar on Devil’s Advocate.
He was replying to a question on whether the BJP would contest the next General Elections under Advani's leadership, who would be 87-year-old in 2014.
Naidu said that by next General Elections, the BJP would need a new leader and for this the of guard would have to take place couple of years before the polls.
The fall and fall of Advani: Ready for a forced exit?
Asked who would be the next leader, he said, “Political parties discuss issues and then come to conclusions according to the need of the hour and by consensus”.
The Rajya Sabha MP said Advani had been chosen as the Leader of Opposition by BJP for the 15th Lok Sabha and it was for him to decide when to step down.
“Whenever he (Advani) wants to make way for others, it is his choice. Nobody has given him any deadline,” Naidu said.
Naidu justified that Advani didn’t want to continue as the head of the BJP parliamentary party and that he was persuaded to do.
“When you lose an election and that too for the second time there will be certain amount of demoralisation, so we wanted him (Advani) to guide. The process of leadership change is a normal process. So, when he wants to choose a new leader, it will be announced by Advani,” he said.
On the recent controversy created by Advani’s statement that he did not want expulsion of Jaswant Singh, Naidu said, “Initially, yes, he was opposed to expulsion. He said in place of expulsion can we think of any other alternative.”
However, Naidu maintained that the final decision was unanimous.
“Jaswant’s book contains many objectionable references,” he said.
Naidu said the decision to expel Jaswant was a “painful decision” as he had been with the party for 25-30 years but there was no other way.
On Arun Shourie’s recent outburst against Advani and party president Rajnath Singh, Naidu hinted action may be taken after the forthcoming Assembly polls while he was confident Vasundhara Raje would abide by party decision.
Instead of others making the leadership decision on behalf of Advani, BJP should allow Advani himself to make the decision as he is, as of today, the topmost active leader of the BJP. They should simply allow Advani to get busy in giving interviews, addressing press conferences and traveling all over the country, everywhere carrying out the role of a opposition leader and a leader of the nation. Age is of no consequence as long as one is healthy and Advani has shown no signs of ill health.
Meanwhile, in Narendra Modi the BJP has an obvious choice as the next leader.
Finally, the next President of the BJP should be a young pracharak from the RSS, whose role would be to integrate the massive machinery of Sangha Parivar into a well-coordinated and oiled power-house capable of converting all the goodwill it has earned for itself into a massive generator of votes also. Long has the power of Sangha Parivar remained untapped as a vote garnering entity because of some psychological idea somewhere in the organization that trying to garner votes is not a respectable activity. This idea must be shunned. India being a democracy, garnering votes is the legitimate way of ensuring that our ideals in all spheres can be translated into actual implementation through political power.
Political power is not alien to Hindu culture. After all, Rama and Krishna were Kshetriyas and political power was wielded by Kshetriyas through much of Indian history. We need not see 'Kshetriya power' as the power of a certain caste, but as the vacuum that exists in any society's leadership. Unless this leadership is a leadership committed to the cause of taking the country to the acme of its potential, the country's future is bleak.
So the new leader of the BJP should be a person capable of consolidating the political power of great quality that is lying latent in and through the Sangha Parivar.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/advani-wont-be-bjp-leader-in-2014-polls-says-naidu/102906-37-64.html
Press Trust Of India
Published on Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 15:31, Updated on Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 16:06 in Politics » Political News section
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president M Venkaiah Naidu said the party will not contest the next Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of LK Advani.
He emphasised that it would be logical for the party to get a new leadership at that juncture.
“Advani is not going to contest the next General Elections (2014). We are not going to fight the next elections under his leadership,” Naidu told Karan Thapar on Devil’s Advocate.
He was replying to a question on whether the BJP would contest the next General Elections under Advani's leadership, who would be 87-year-old in 2014.
Naidu said that by next General Elections, the BJP would need a new leader and for this the of guard would have to take place couple of years before the polls.
The fall and fall of Advani: Ready for a forced exit?
Asked who would be the next leader, he said, “Political parties discuss issues and then come to conclusions according to the need of the hour and by consensus”.
The Rajya Sabha MP said Advani had been chosen as the Leader of Opposition by BJP for the 15th Lok Sabha and it was for him to decide when to step down.
“Whenever he (Advani) wants to make way for others, it is his choice. Nobody has given him any deadline,” Naidu said.
Naidu justified that Advani didn’t want to continue as the head of the BJP parliamentary party and that he was persuaded to do.
“When you lose an election and that too for the second time there will be certain amount of demoralisation, so we wanted him (Advani) to guide. The process of leadership change is a normal process. So, when he wants to choose a new leader, it will be announced by Advani,” he said.
On the recent controversy created by Advani’s statement that he did not want expulsion of Jaswant Singh, Naidu said, “Initially, yes, he was opposed to expulsion. He said in place of expulsion can we think of any other alternative.”
However, Naidu maintained that the final decision was unanimous.
“Jaswant’s book contains many objectionable references,” he said.
Naidu said the decision to expel Jaswant was a “painful decision” as he had been with the party for 25-30 years but there was no other way.
On Arun Shourie’s recent outburst against Advani and party president Rajnath Singh, Naidu hinted action may be taken after the forthcoming Assembly polls while he was confident Vasundhara Raje would abide by party decision.
Instead of others making the leadership decision on behalf of Advani, BJP should allow Advani himself to make the decision as he is, as of today, the topmost active leader of the BJP. They should simply allow Advani to get busy in giving interviews, addressing press conferences and traveling all over the country, everywhere carrying out the role of a opposition leader and a leader of the nation. Age is of no consequence as long as one is healthy and Advani has shown no signs of ill health.
Meanwhile, in Narendra Modi the BJP has an obvious choice as the next leader.
Finally, the next President of the BJP should be a young pracharak from the RSS, whose role would be to integrate the massive machinery of Sangha Parivar into a well-coordinated and oiled power-house capable of converting all the goodwill it has earned for itself into a massive generator of votes also. Long has the power of Sangha Parivar remained untapped as a vote garnering entity because of some psychological idea somewhere in the organization that trying to garner votes is not a respectable activity. This idea must be shunned. India being a democracy, garnering votes is the legitimate way of ensuring that our ideals in all spheres can be translated into actual implementation through political power.
Political power is not alien to Hindu culture. After all, Rama and Krishna were Kshetriyas and political power was wielded by Kshetriyas through much of Indian history. We need not see 'Kshetriya power' as the power of a certain caste, but as the vacuum that exists in any society's leadership. Unless this leadership is a leadership committed to the cause of taking the country to the acme of its potential, the country's future is bleak.
So the new leader of the BJP should be a person capable of consolidating the political power of great quality that is lying latent in and through the Sangha Parivar.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/advani-wont-be-bjp-leader-in-2014-polls-says-naidu/102906-37-64.html
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