Samikhsya Bureau
It was interesting and amusing as well to hear the saffron pinch-hitter Amit Shah, the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party , dubbing the Biju Janata Dal, as one among many “ chhote chhote”in the country (small parties).he said this at a public meeting at Dhenkanal.
It is not about the tenor Shah spoke it but the pungency it was uttered by bracketing a party which had braved the 2014 country-wide Modi wave to win 20 out of 21 Lok sabha seats and brow-beat the BJP in the Assembly also to retain power in the state with a brute majority of 117.
Changing colours in politics is not new but what the political think-tank of the BJP alluded by his description is like giving an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Although politics is no more a profession professed by sages alone but the perfidious traits it has included within has made it look worse than before. That way, no politician is free from such pugnacity, why alone Shah.
Anyway, the critical junctures at which the “ chhote chhote” political party, as described by the BJP president, the BJD stood by the NDA government in the parliament and outside, was not the moments to be consigned to the flames of campaign blitzkrieg.
Be it demonetisation, vote of confidence, elections of the President and Vice President of India and on several other key issues such as Tripple Talaq etc, it was the same BJD which played the sheet anchor role, can’t be a “chhote” party for the BJP.
Such political compulsions are really contagious that has spread into parties who normally do not disregard obligations.
