The present debate on
presidential nomination and a secular prime minister gives some serendipitous pointers.
One, whatever the bewildering definition of Hindutva by the Supreme Court, the
BJP’s sub-cultural hardened core can’t knead all Hindus, preponderantly
liberal, large hearted and secular, into a hard Hindutva mold. Two, not as a
natural choice but as a compulsion and calculative move, APJ Kalam becomes BJP’s choice in presidential elections. To
the chagrins of many Hidutvavadis, ironically, only a Muslim gets benefited!
Three, Kalam remains and is seen as a BJP’s man whatever his stature. Four,
despite the adulatory editorial ‘Well Done Kalam’ in The Hindu, he isn’t that
innocent given his long calculative ‘scientific’ silence and delayed withdrawal,
embarrassing many and in fact reducing his own stature. If he wasn’t interested
and knowing well Pranab Mukherji’s political stature, he should have said so at
the very outset. Great men should learn to fade away gracefully like a radiant
sunset in horizon. Four, and most importantly, as a collateral damage, the Hindutva
has come to mean for LK Advani and Narendra Modi as BJP’s PMs in waiting for ever!
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