We knew that the mud flinging is in the offing when BSP’s tainted and ousted minister B S Kushwaha got a princely welcome in the BJP but it would start from its own sections was quite a surprise. The rift within the party is compounding and the discomfort among its own leaders has come to the fore with few of its own MPs opening the fire against the party’s decision. Now when BJP is at the receiving end with this blunder, their rule books and yard sticks have changed and Mr. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is now singing a different tune on the issue of corruption and the corrupts as if the party has become a place to atone. We aren’t kicking about BJP’s reading too much into the CBI’s raids and calling it a maneuver by the Congress because we know that they’re right but they shouldn’t forget that the one who pays the piper calls the tune and had they been in power they would’ve done the same. With the elections in UP around the corner the stakes are too high for the BJP but mounting the blame on Congress for one’s own goof up isn’t going to serve their purpose, mistakes need to be rectified before the damage goes beyond repair.
