Museum pieces in crucial executive positions

[IntelliBriefs Contact: intellibriefs@gmail.com May 16, 2009 Election 2009: BJP got what it deserved
Radha Rajan 17 May 2009 When ambition overrode ideology The BJP suffers from seven problems – Advani, Jaswant Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh; each one’s coterie expanding their personal agendas in an oceanic circle, some of them expanding across the Atlantic and the Pacific and then coming back to Indian shores as returning currents with ambitious jetsam and flotsam riding on their crests... The author is Editor. www.vigilonline Posted by Naxal Watch at 11:38]

[IntelliBriefs Contact : intellibriefs@gmail.com May 16, 2009
Why BJP lost : A view from David Frawley, a long standing friend of India.
David Frawley My message to BJP is the same as what I would give to any organization: don't bank on nostalgia. India is the youngest nation in the world. To them many voters, BJP like Advani, Shekhawat & Co are museum pieces. Present a youthful and vigorous image. Rajnath Singh said that BJP did poorly because it didn't have Vajpayee. Surely, you need more useful analysis. ---Quite right. Rajnath is another museum piece. I remember speaking at the BJP Central office in Delhi in 1999 and finding that they had 11 Vice Presidents all above the age of 75, several of which could barely walk. I asked them why they didn't put young people in the job to prepare them and make them better known. They said that their policy was to honor the elderly. I told them they needed younger people, they shrugged it off... Posted by Naxal Watch at 8:30 PM]

Presence of a plethora of such museum pieces in crucial executive positions is detrimental to the future of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry as an organization. [TNM]