What's going on in the BJP?

At the ground level, too, there is resentment from workers and local leaders, who have perhaps not got whatever they may have wanted

Until three months ago the BJP, as a party, seemed as united as a political party can seem. There was the odd grumble here and there but, on the whole, these were little cracks in the plaster only and not in the brickwork.

It all started with some of the old warhorses of the BJP like Yashwant Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha, Arun Shourie, Kirti Azad, etc protesting. Most people dismissed this as a revolt of the old and the politically irrelevant.

But since about July, things have changed. Not a fortnight goes by without some new and damaging development.

The latest — if you