28 March 2014, 03:46 PM IST
There has been a flood of comment about BJP centering its campaign totally around Narendra Modi with rivals accusing the party of having little else to offer and analysts wondering whether a personality cult is replacing organisational goals.
The view in some quarters is that Modi's emergence signals a ruthless sidelining of other leaders and a subsuming of the party organisation with loyalty to an individual replacing belief in ideological values.
The sudden concern for inner-party democracy in BJP is interesting given that for years the party was criticised for being rudder-less with an unclear pecking order encouraging unrestrained factionalism.
What has happened is that BJP has found a leader. Whether this is for better or worse remains to be seen, though opinion polls indicate Modi has made a huge difference to a party that not long ago resembled the gang that could not shoot straight.
In fact, some of the turmoil in BJP, from veteran leader L K Advani's tantrum over his Lok Sabha seat to former foreign minister Jaswant Singh's revolt on being denied the Barmer seat, are a direct fallout of organisational decline due to lack of an authoritative central leadership.
In an imperfect world, BJP and RSS leaders have made the best available choice, weighing Modi's attributes as an orator and his development claims as chief minister. They have also responded to the sentiments of the BJP cadre.
It is not that BJP leaders backing Modi are unaware that the chief minister will be targeted for the Gujarat riots and the perception that he is an individualist. But they calculate he can best tap the UPA's incumbency.
As for the BJP organisation is concerned, it has been increasingly peopled by unelectable functionaries who represent factional compromises intended to protect the ruling dispensation's interests.
This has begun to change with BJP chief Rajnath Singh recognising that without enuring Modi's primacy, the party was likely to hurtle to a third straight defeat.
Modi's critics, including in-house ones, insist that anti-incumbency, and not a Modi wave, is driving up BJP's stock. Though elections are never easy to predict, BJP may feel betting on Modi is a risk worth taking.
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