So who are these leaders? Well, everybody knows the names that constitute the list but the reports emanating from BJP's inner circles point the finger towards two leaders of the BJP – Lal Krishna Advani and Sushma Swaraj.
That Advani feels jealous of Modi is no longer a secret. He had gone public with his reservations over Modi's leadership and RSS had to intervene for dowsing the fire that he had so carefully ignited to spoil the party after Modi was declared the chairman of BJP's election campaign committee.
Advani was forced to swallow his pride after the RSS tersely asked him either to fall in line or get sidelined. But Advani is not a person who will give up so easily. After all, he has made the party brick-by-brick over the years.
So under a new strategy, Advani is now using his staunch supporter Sushma Swaraj for preventing Modi from being declared as the PM candidate. Since Sushma can't say this openly, she has come out with her own lame excuses.
According to media reports, she has told the RSS that she would not be able to work effectively as the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha if Modi is officially nominated as PM candidate.
Her line of argument is that naming Modi as the prime ministerial candidate ahead of the assembly polls would shift the focus from corruption, economic crisis and misgovernance to polarisation over Modi's divisive personality.
