New Delhi, May 18: So the BJP has once again become a victim of the political machinations of those very leaders who believe that elections are won and lost through creating right power equations in Delhi. It happened in Uttar Pradesh in the past and now it has been repeated in Karnataka.
History has been witness to the fact that a party that does not respect the contributions of its main architect, who built the party brick by brick in the state, is doomed to be condemned by the voters. This is not to say that if that person is indulging in corrupt practices, then you should turn a blind eye towards his unlawful activities.
But in a case, where you are aware of the fact that the constitutional functionaries are trying all the tricks in the book to defame and create problems for that person, then you have to be a little more understanding, instead of playing into the hands of his intra-party detractors, who are waiting in the wings to topple him.
But BJP, which claims to be the party with a difference, has got the worst kind of coterie that is ruling the roost at the central level. The party committed political hara-kiri first in Uttar Pradesh and then in Karnataka.
Let's discuss Karnataka first. B S Yeddyurappa was the person who made the party from scratch in the state. He emerged as the leader of Lingayats, the biggest community in terms of electoral influence in the state.
The BJP reaped the harvest to the hilt and for the first time, and the party succeeded in forming a government in southern India for the first time.
