BJP's handling opportunistic: Advani

[and/or www.mantra.com/jai]

BJP's handling opportunistic: Advani

Express News Service
Monday, May 13, 2013

Days after the BJP's defeat in Karnataka, senior leader L
K Advani on Sunday sought to blame the party's central
leadership for the debacle. He said had the party taken
firm action when it became clear that B S Yeddyurappa was
"unabashedly" indulging in corruption, the course of
events would have been different. He said the BJP's
handling of Karnataka has been "absolutely
opportunistic".

Advani said he was not at all surprised by the BJP's
defeat. In fact, Advani said, he would have been
surprised had the BJP won. Triggering a blame game, he
said that instead of taking action against BSY, frantic
efforts were made to placate him by "condoning his
peccadilloes" in the name of adopting a "pragmatic
approach" to save the party's only government in south
India.

Advani's blog entry was a response to a murmur within the
BJP that it was BSY's exit which spelt doom for the party
as it resulted in division of votes. BJP leaders who
peddle this line point to the role Advani and Ananth
Kumar played in his exit. By laying the blame for the
defeat entirely on "opportunistic" handling of affairs in
Karnataka, Advani has in effect disassociated himself
from the defeat and disagreed with the split of votes
theory.

Continues at:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bjps-handling-of-karnataka-opportunistic-says-advani/1115042/

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj