‘The Tribune-Chatterati” 15th.March.2010

The new President of the BJP, it seems is a talented man, hailing from Mumbai. Obviously he has a soft corner for Bollywood. At the BJP meet at Indore Gadkari tried to create a new harmony amongst everyone present by starting a sort of ‘Antakshri’ on stage; you had Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and some Ministers sing along.
We know that Atal ji and Advani are both big Bollywood fans. Atal ji was a great poet and has written many books on poetry but Advani started writing his biographies which actually created controversies which he could not get out of it.
Well using Bollywood lyrics took at the leadership conclave to sing with them has not gone well with many in the party. The new President, everyone now thinks it is quite clueless about the sentiments of the Aam Admi. His song was well chosen may be keeping in mind from where he has reached to where – ‘Zindagi, Kaisi hai paheli haaye, kabhi to hansaaye, kabhi yeh rulaaye’. No one ever expected Mr. Gadkari to take over as the BJP National President, so obviously this is a paheli not only for him but for others too. While he is laughing all the way the other senior leaders who were in line for the post are crying.
Whatever else happened at the Indore conclave Gadkari’s singing along with his colleagues over shadowed all other resolutions passed. This is a new sing song twist to mind-storming conclaves.