BJP discussing issues raised by old guard, says Gadkari

They also ridiculed the BJP parliamentary board’s conclusion that the party would take collective responsibility for the defeat and said that “to say that everyone is responsible for the defeat in Bihar is to ensure that no one is held responsible”.

Defending BJP President Shah, Naidu said he played an important role in strategising the party and organising the campaign during the elections. Another BJP leader Subramniam Swamy said the BJP has always been a tolerant religious group.

As BJP grappled with the dissent by four party veterans, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu today suggested that they should have raised their views at a party forum rather than going public.

“There is a logic in what the elders of the party pointed out”, the minister said.

Of the 26 constituencies where Modi spoke, the BJP won in only 10 seats. When it come to opposition parties they are alleging the Shah-Modi duo for dividing the society on communal line leading to religious intolerance.

MP R K Singh lashed at the top leadership of the party accusing them of promoting criminalisation of politics in the run-up to Bihar elections. Hence, amid whispers of cabinet reshuffle after the winter session, Modi must consider a permanent solution to this void and find a suitable person who not only showcase people about what the government of India has done, but save the government in crisis also. The public outcry led to an unusual, albeit indirect, warning against the government from Raghuram Rajan, India’s central bank governor, who called for improving the environment through tolerance and mutual respect. The third element, spearheaded by Indian home minister Rajnath Singh, sought to outlaw the slaughter of cows, considered sacred by many Hindus. “I am in Himachal (Pradesh) and I have nothing to say over the developments”, he said. The BJP was compelled to take such a decision anticipating a stormy Winter Session in Parliament, beginning November 26, when it would require the support of Trinamul Congress MPs to pass crucial bills in the Upper House.

Mr. Modi’s union administration has tried to disassociate the results in agrarian Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, from his plans to develop India into the world’s third-largest economy by 2030.

But most believe that this missive may spur the leadership and the party to undergo a course correction: less bombast and hubris while campaigning for votes, listening to and promoting more local leaders, and returning to good old fashioned realpolitik of political give and take. However, Shourie is not looking to replace PM Modi but to change him through a course correction. “State elections are for electing the chief minister and not the PM. We also lost a few state Assembly elections”.