Out of power for a decade now, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) decided to follow the "build-operate-transfer" franchise route for Project 2014. The party's doyens had earlier completed the "build" and Narendra Modi was awarded the contract to go through with the rest of the job. The BJP is now finding to its dismay that Modi, on his part, has little intention of transferring the operating profits to the party. The party watches in embarrassment as Modi toys with their doyens of yore who built it up, be it allotting seats or constituencies. The BJP sadly finds that it had not put any protective clause against absolutism in the Modi franchise. The saffron party was warned by wiser men that campaign 2014 could well duplicate the Gujarat "governance" model. But then wisdom has historically been the antithesis of over-ambition, and the BJP today, maybe even the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh tomorrow, could realise that it may have run into a cul-de-sac, at the wrong end of this adage.
R Narayanan, Ghaziabad
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