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Janata Dal (United) president Sharad Yadav said here that though the NDA fought the elections as a group, the “grip was missing”.
Speaking at the end of the party’s two-day national executive meet, Yadav said the BJP, which was leading the alliance, would have to take the maximum blame. “The BJP is the biggest party in the alliance and hence they are to be blamed more, but they alone cannot be blamed totally,” he said. “The kind of understanding that should have been in the alliance during polls was missing this time, like we had when Atal Behari Vajpayee was the leader. That kind of understanding was somehow missing.”
Putting a question mark on the way the campaign was run by the NDA, he said the alliance was not visible everywhere. “There was an alliance but it was not like the one in the past. The NDA was visible but only at few places, not at all places. We should have focused on farmers in our election campaign as we had so many leaders from rural background. But we did not go together at many places,” Yadav said.
Without mentioning the Rajnath Singh-Arun Jaitley spat over Sudhanshu Mittal or the fact that many BJP leaders started referring to Gujarat CM Narendra Modi as the next prime ministerial candidate even as the NDA was contesting the elections under L K Advani’s leadership, Yadav said “some internal fights” that had taken place in the alliance had caused losses to the NDA.
“We — JD (U) — also suffered losses,” he added.
Yadav said the participants at the national executive expressed concern over the internal fights. “We will discuss how to solve it whenever a meeting of the NDA takes place,” he added.
Yadav’s comments came after many of his colleagues in the JD(U) accused the BJP of being responsible for the NDA’s poor performance at the hustings.
It is learnt that many leaders said the NDA didn’t look a cohesive force. Leaders from UP, Bihar and Jharkhand also accused the BJP of behaving like a big brother. The party’s Jharkhand unit president Jaleshwar Mahto strongly advocated the need for the party to contest the next Assembly election on its own. The JD(U) lost from both the seats it contested in Jharkhand.
The strong feelings expressed by the leaders forced Sharad Yadav to assure them that the party would consider all options from now on. But asked if the JD(U) would stake claim to the post of Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha now that the UPA was considering offering the same to the Opposition as per convention, Yadav replied in the negative.
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The fact that we should not wish bjp to rule India but we need strong opposition to control rulling congress. If there will not be a strong opposition, cong leaders(but those who are interested in making money) will be out of control.Yes, in order to avoid black mailing of bigger partner congress, parties like Lalu-paswan-mulayam-naidu-mamta-dmk should be defeated. Only 3 parties : cong-communist-bjp(if it focus on economic issue
BJP leaders were overwhelmed with joy of dreaming the power and that reflected in their rhetoric everywhere. Modi and Advani were simply hurling vulgur words at Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi in order to project themsleves as strong leaders. You will never see the BJP or NDA raising their heads in the future as within the coming five years, the UPA will make such changes that every Indian would demand the UPA to lead India.
EVEN BY REMOTE STANDARDS ADVANI OR ANY BJP LEADER FOR THAT MATTER , CANNOT BE COMPARED WITH VAJPAYEE's CHARISHMA . SO SHARAD IS RIGHT , ATAL IS ATAL . INDIANS HAVE SHUNNED THE HAWKISH RIGHTIST IDEOLOGIES OF BJP . AND SUPPORTED PERFORMANCE ORIENTED CONGRESS WHICH WAS SAILING THE NEW HEIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS . INDIAN DEMOCRACY HAS MATURED AND THE VOTERS ARE BECOMING MORE INTELLIGENT AND WELL INFORMED . DEVELOPMENT IS THE ONLY MANTRA AND GOVT WHICH PERFORMS WILL BE REWARDED WITH ANOTHER TERM OF GOVERNANCE .FURTHER INDIAN VOTERS SHOULD MOVE AWAY FROM PERSONALITY BRACKETS , AND INSTEAD SHOULD PROMOTE
WE, THE 21st CENTURY INDIANS HAS VOTED FOR DEVELOPMENT
If BJP has any pollitcial wisdom, they should immediately disnad the NDA and rid itself of allies who are coming in the way of original agenda of the BjP, like Uniform civil Code. expelling Banagaladehi illegal immigrants, stopping all reservations and concessions based on caste or religin. These allies are more interested in Muslim votes than the national interest.
After all people beat who is weak. Now BJP is weak. But Sharad is correct what is urgency to talk about next PM when ur not sure of an election. Further LKA do not have cotrol over Rajnath , Jetley or on anybody. It is only RSS. RSS is synnonimus to Soina for Congress. Nearly in 200 seats BJP does not have any presence. Then how it can Rule? U will get association of fair weather friend like JDU BJD LD etc.IF BJP is main opposition it is a great thing. If this way they continue they may end up with single digit member in Parliment.Swaminathan.
Another secular pro-left alternative should come up. Communal forces are always destabilises our country.People of India should reject this communal and hate preaching party out. Even today if we calculate MPs from secular non-congress parties they are more than bjp.
Atal's NDA could not let BJP grow stronger and in fact weakened the party (No disregard to the great leader Atal). Many leaders and mediamen are giving free idea to the BJP. BJP should ignore such free ideas given with the bad intention of making BJP another Congress. Winning or loosing elections should not alter the ideology and we do not need another Sickular Congress.
There is a proverb in our Telugu language; it says “there are hundred reasons for the death of Karna (in Mahabharata)”. Similarly there are many reasons for the BJP defeat in this election. Today just because JDU got some seats in Bihar, Sarad Yadav and Nitish Kumar should not and need not jump and talk very high. Yes, BJP being emerged as a big party after the middle age of our independence knows the fact of the defeat and will definitely analyses for the shortcomings. Though it is defeated I wish it to be a viable alternative in a two party system for the success of our democracy. I wish and ask the intelligentsia of the society to work for how these splinter regional parties can, stop influencing the fate of Union government. It is the biggest threat to the country not the BJP; because on the feelings before the election the voter will decide on to congress or BJP to rule the next term. Just because it is defeated (in real terms now) we should not blame it.