Saviour for a party bereft of ideas

There is poignancy to politics which lies in the multiple levels of drama. The recent events in the Bharatiya Janata Party can be seen crassly as an anointing, a crowning and an elevation of Narendra Modi as campaign manager for the BJP for 2014. Such a statement misses the sheer ecology of dramas around the event. What one is witnessing is a struggle for power, an agony of decision-making, a battle of generations where the new seems less welcoming than the old. Straddling it all is a man dubbed the Nestor or Bhishma Pitamah of the BJP, L.K. Advani.

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