|
Gadkari tipped to be BJP
president as RSS micro manages BJP
WSN Network
 NAGPUR: At a
time when the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is talking of possibly
changing the khaki knicker uniform, Nitin Gadkari cuts an ungainly
figure in his khaki half-pants, his bulk making the outfit look even
more archaic and ill-fitting.
But it seems
this Maharashtra BJP chief who is among the jet set crowd and works
out from his airconditioned office, knows how wearing the khaki half
pants pays, particularly at the time of vaccum in the party.
Along with
Narendra Modi, who has the additional tag of being anti-Muslim and
the luggage of presiding over the massacre of Muslims in
Gujarat,
Gadkari is now in the front race for BJP presidentship.
Mohan Bhagwat
seems to have handpicked the 52-year-old who is also close to RSS
headquarters, even literally as he lives a stone's throw away in the
city's Mahal area.
|
Gadkari
will be beating Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu and
Ananth Kumar and will try to benefit from the
Delhi
outsider tag. But his stint will only see more RSS cloud over the
BJP. |
|
His five years
as head of BJP in Maharashtra have not been scintillating with the
alliance with Shiv Sena hitting a record low ahead of this year's
national elections and the more recent reverses the partners faced
in state polls. After 10 years in power, Congress surged back to
power despite providing pretty average governance.
Gadkari will be
beating Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu and Ananth
Kumar and will try to benefit from the
Delhi
outsider tag. But his stint will only see more RSS cloud over the
BJP.
Bhagwat has made
little effort to hide his disdain for any BJP leader, including
veteran L K Advani's views on the BJP's presidentship. RSS seems set
for micro-management of the BJP and in Bhagwat's words may do
"surgery or chemotherapy" to set things right. Some see it as
possibly the continuation towards a more hardliner stance of
Hindutva and Bhagwat's agenda of making entire India Sangh-mayee,
whatever that means.
18
November 2009
|
Read Also