Crisis in BJP contd.

This is what The Hindu published on 17.6.2009. The editor's heavy hand has done its work this time also, but there is no mutilation.

After throwing Hindutva out, there will be no BJP left to save. The BJP was launched to first win and then keep in perpetuity the Hindu vote bank, which its leaders thought was waiting to be used. But Hindus were never a single vote bank. The grand Hindu identity is an artificial construct, the real being the sub-identities of castes and sub-castes, which have already aligned themselves with various regional and national parties occupying almost the entire political space. The BJP, therefore, is left with only one option — disintegrate.

P.P. Sudhakaran