From: jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed Ahmed Khan)
Subject: Re: 3 BJP ruled state govts. dismissed
Reply-To: jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed Ahmed Khan)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:09:48 GMT

In article <BzC3q7.GrL@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, bhatnagr@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Raj
Bhatnagar) writes:
> In article <1992Dec15.171037@IASTATE.EDU> jakhan@IASTATE.EDU 
> (Javed Ahmed Khan) writes:
> >
> >PVNR is now going overboard in his reaction to the Ayodhya blunder.
> 
> BJP's failure was in its inability to control the militants and stop them
> from destroying the disputed structure.
> 
> PVNR was on top, politically, till he had dismissed UP Govt. and banned
> RSS and VHP etc. This way he had deflected all the blame on to the
> RSS-family of organizations.



I dont think he lost politically when he dismissed the BJP govt. in UP.
He would be under overwhelming moral duty to dismiss the govt. there even if
there was no pressure from his own party. The BJP govt. would definitely
have been dismissed because the center had already publicly stated that they
would at the very least dismiss the govt. if the BM was harmed in any way.



> 
> But the dismissal of the other three BJP Govts is the mistake he has
> made, losing the political advantage he might have accumulated earlier.
> But it seems that he is under too much pressure from (Arjun Singh +
Communists
> + leftists in Cong) and has to comply with their demands to maintain his
> position within Cong. He has no other choice. But Cong in the long run is
going
> to suffer more than gain from these developments. 
> 



Here I agree that PVNR is likely to lose any advantage he gained. The dismissals
smack of opurtunism and crass politics rather than any conviction of wrong doing
by these state govts. in their handling of the aftermath.





> The best person in Congress party whom BJP would have liked to continue
> in power is PVNRao. Demolition of the Ayodhya structure weakened Rao's
> position within Congress. And Advani/Kalyan etc., by resigning, tried to 
> take as much pressure away from PVNRao as they could because if Arjun +
> leftists gain strength within Congress then BJP group would face harsher
> and more undemocratic kind of politics from them, in addition to the 
> return of same old Nehruvian economics which BJP does not like.
> 



This is a simplistic explanation. The BJP were taken by surprise by the
reaction to the demolition and the only course left for them was to salvage
whatever mileage they could before events became unfavourable. They now sense
that a general election may be possible, and making all the right moves was
imperative. Resigning and taking "moral responsibility" was the only way to
save some face.
 




> 
> (Just Grapevine :
> Almost reliable sources say that within non-arrested part of BJP/VHP 
> the debate is rife about neutralizing those elements that broke the 
> discipline, and 
> disrupted party's strategic planning by demolishing the structure. Till
> now the finger is pointing in two directions - one, some over enthusiastic
> sadhus and two, the Shiv sena group. Sabotage of the plans by Shiv sena 
> at the instigation of some outsiders (out of RSS/BJp/VHP etc) is also 
> being given serious scrutiny)
> 
> >If he wants to dismiss govts. he must also include the govt. of Maharashtra
> >where the largest number of death occurred in the aftermath. 
> >
> >He seems to be playing the old Congress game of manipulating tragedies to
> >turn them into their favour.
> >
> >This action will only worsen things.
> >
> >--Javed.
> 
> 
> ---raj
> 



--Javed.
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