The Shah Of Strategy

The BJP president remains the most powerful man in the country after the prime minister

- Uday Mahurkar

 

WHEN THE DRAFT NATIONAL REGISTER FOR CITIZENS was announced on July 30, there was confusion within the BJP. Should the party claim credit for the ambitious exercise mandated by the Su­preme Court? Or should it follow the cue of Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who was busy reassuring the four million people in the state whose names did not figure in the NRC that they need not panic, as they still had two months’ time to appeal. Most partymen were unsure whether to cash in on the development or stay clear of it lest it backfire on them.