Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa, UP- Election 2007 - 2

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Uma Bharati was quite vitriolic while announcing withdrawal of her candidates in favor of BJP. She had made it clear that she did it so that reality of BJP's strength will come out in the open, and people won't blame her for BJP's imminent loss.

Seems like she had a better grasp on the reality.

Even VHP continued to remain quite upset with BJP.

So, does that mean RSS' coming out in full force to support BJP was an experiment? I had assumed that to mean that all hindutva forces were fully united behind BJP, but now I have my doubts. Were these elections meant to decide within the RSS parivar whether BJP still represented hindus at large?

Uma Bharati and VHP have been trying to have a new hindu political outfit with RSS' blessings. It seems likely that such voices will become shriller.

It seems that BJP took upper caste votes for granted just as it has been taking hindutva votes for granted. Same old story of losing the "dhruva" for the "adhruva".

Vajpayee is almost retired. And a poor performance in an election managed by Advani's protege Naidu puts another dent in Advani's already dented image.

BJP is surely going to see some turmoil.

Uma Bharati and VHP have a stronger case now.