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NEW DELHI: Just one day after debacle in Bihar BJP veterans including LK Advani today issued a hard hitting letter which is being seen as ‘Political Bomb’ targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah
In the letter top leaders deamanded a thorough review of Bihar debacle. It criticized party its stand of not taking responsibility of the debacle.
“The results of Bihar election show that no lesson has been learnt from fiasco in Delhi,” said the statement, signed by Mr Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Shanta Kumar and Yashwant Sinha.
The statement, which sources said was drafted in less than 10 minutes after the leaders met at the Delhi residence of Mr Joshi this evening, does not name PM Modi or Mr Shah, who led the party’s strategy and campaign for the Bihar elections, but censures their leadership unambiguously and in strong words.
“To say everyone is responsible for defeat in Bihar is to ensure no one is held responsible. It shows those who would have appropriated credit are bent on shrugging off responsibility for the disastrous showing in Bihar,” the leaders said.
“A principal reason for the latest defeat is the way the party has been emasculated in the last year… A thorough review must be done of the reasons for the defeat as well as the way the party is being forced to kowtow to a handful and how its consensual character has been destroyed,” the statement added.
Here is the text of letter issued by ADVANI, JOSHI, SHANTA KUMAR & SINHA………..
The results of the Bihar elections show that no lesson has been learnt from the fiasco in Delhi. To say that everyone is responsible for the defeat in Bihar is to ensure that no one is held responsible. It shows that those who would have appropriated credit if the Party had won are bent on shrugging off responsibility for the disastrous showing in Bihar.
The principal reason for the latest defeat is the way the Party has been emasculated in the last year.
A thorough review must be done of the reasons for the defeat as well as of the way the Party is being forced to kow-tow to a handful, and how its consensual character has been destroyed.
This review must not be done by the very persons who have managed and who have been responsible for the campaign in Bihar .
Authorised for issue
(YASHWANT SINHA)
November 11, 2015
New Delhi
The letter has been issued one day ahead of schedule