It never rains but pours!!

BJP can certainly vouch for that now, misfortunes seem to have been lined up for them. For everyone's benefit, BJP is one of the two main national political parties in India. It all started during the Loksabha (Indian general elections) poll campaign earlier this year.

First, they had differences in nominating their prime ministerial candidate, then intra-party fighting between Arun Jaitley and BJP top brass, Varun followed up with his hate speech, to top it off, Advaniji kept going over his broken record 'Manmohan Singh is the weakest PM' and maybe he was hinting about his health, only God knows? To steal the limelight, there were disputes between CM and ministers in Karnataka and the state govt's inability to act against atrocities committed by SRS. Anyway, none of these incidents helped them to put up a fight against UPA or Congress in particular and hence they were shown the door by Indian electorate.

That loss must have hurt BJP for sure. So, after that we expected some re-grouping and re-building to save the image of the party among masses. Nope, it only got worse. Nobody was ready to take the responsibility or nail down the cause of the defeat. An open acceptance came later from the party lead and each one of the top leaders gave their own reason for BJP's defeat.

Commotion within the party after such a loss took things to a point of no return. Jashwant Singh, Yashwant Sinha and other top leaders came out in open against top BJP office bearers. They tried to resolve their internal disputes in public. The streak of such incidents is continuing till date with the latest one being Jashwant Singh's book on Jinnah. What is it that is causing so much issues in BJP? Lack of tolerance, I would say.

How many of these BJP leaders have read the book on Jinnah in full? If BJP announces that the views expressed in the book are Jashwant's personal views and they don't endorse that, then why expel him as a knee jerk reaction? On one hand, BJP claims itself to be a secular party but on the other hand, they couldn't tolerate someone claiming Jinnah to be secular in his book. When someone writes a book on a leader, they have a certain level of freedom to express their point of view. I haven't read the book but if BJP leaders have, why can't they express their reasons to expel him? They themselves keep reducing the chances of getting any votes from non-Hindu communities.

More importantly, all these issues keep detracting BJP from playing the role of a constructive opposition party. There are so many other important issues we have in hand. Several states are in drought, swine flu is spreading across, a few key state elections are coming up but BJP says "No sir, we are busy getting the title of Big Joke Party, please leave us alone".