Advani, Joshi take on Modi, Shah over Bihar rout

“The result of the Bihar election shows that no lesson was learnt from the fiasco in Delhi”, the hard hitting statement said.

Further, the statement said the party has been “emasculated” in the last one year and was being “forced to kow-tow to a handful”.

“We have read the statement issued by a few senior members of the party”.

The November 30 rally of BJP will be attended by the party’s central leaders and there will be a march from College Square to Rani Rashmoni Road, Sinha said. “I would not like to say anything about it, since I was not the in-charge of Bihar, nor I went there”, he said.

“A section of leaders in the party is in support of these veterans”. These leaders are expecting deliberations over the poor performance of the party in Bihar. “It’s for them to decide what to do”, the source said.

Jaitley had expressed similar views a day earlier, adding that there was no question of removing Shah as the BJP president because he had led the party to victories in other states after the Lok Sabha battle.

Parliamentary affairs minister Venkaiah Naidu said the “views and concerns” flagged by the elders had been noted while transport minister Nitin Gadkari clarified a previous statement demanding “stringent action” against those making “irresponsible statements”.

BJP veteran leaders L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Shanta Kumar and Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday targeted the party leadership over the party’s rout in the recent Bihar polls. “Accountability has to be fixed”.

They said the party had, thereafter, achieved success in the assembly elections of Jharkhand, Haryana, Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir. “We could have campaigned more strategically to reach out larger masses”, Tiwari said.

Following that, Gadkari, Naidu and Home Minister Rajnath Singh had issued a press release, reminding the veterans that the party had exclusively adopted the precedent set by them.

Battle lines hardened within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s critics and his supporters amid calls for strict action against the “rebels”. The senior leaders have been sidelined, there is supremacy of only one man i.e. Narendra Modi ji.

“Advaniji has immensely contributed to the growth and expansion of the party and we are taking note of everything”, he told the media. We will discuss with all concerned.

The Prime Minister came under the Opposition’s guns for his recent “intolerance” statement in the U.K, where he said that the land belonging to Gandhi and Buddha would not digest intolerance on any level.