Wanted, a painter for the BJP

Never before the vacuum was so prominent. After its rout in the 15th Lok Sabha elections the BJP is searching for another Vajpayee. A leader who will not only be acceptable to all the groups and classes of Indian masses but will also lay down a different trajectory for the party to follow in future. A man who can give the BJP a vision and wisdom.
By now the BJP would have realized that laptops and blogs do not take you to the inroads of India. The youth, today, lives not only in their inboxes but thinks out of the box. Internet is just a medium, an interest of youngs today. It is not the end. Every generation is a change of its predecessors; every generation’s changes will be changed by its successors.
Advani is not the face of the youth of today, just not because he is physically old but also because of number of ideas and ideology which half the voters of the country cannot relate with. Age has nothing to do with physical strength; it has everything to do with vision. Rahul Gandhi’s rise as a youth icon in politics has its reasons. Youngs relate to him, not because he is half the age of Advani but because he thinks on the same lines as half the population in the country does.
The dismal performance by the saffron party washed off various hues mixed assiduously by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. These hues essentially were the staircase which could lead the BJP on the flights of power. The BJP quintessentially is the most progressive party we have. It has all the ingredients of a party which knows its history but will also work for the future. It rose as a party of the fanatics, but Vajpayee transformed it into a party of middle classes. Even the elites cannot ignore the roots it had among the masses. It is this root which has to be nurtured again to keep the party in the canvas of Indian politics.
A painter who can once again mix these colours of India, can be a leader of not only Hindus but Indians is needed by the BJP. Congress has many young leaders and Rahul Gandhi is seen as the new face of leadership in India. But the Congress has its limitations. It gained votes not because of its five-year term but because of BJP’s absence of solid projections as alternate government. BJP has five years. If in next general elections it does not find a leader of the masses, it should very well get ready to go to the gallows.