New Delhi: With Nitin Gadkari becoming the
new BJP President, Congress today said the opposition party
has changed the team which led it to "failure" in two
successive general elections in 2004 and 2009.
"After BJP lost two Lok Sabha elections in a row, they
perhaps wanted to change the team which led them to the
failure," party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed told reporters.
Though he described it as an "internal matter of BJP and
the RSS", the Congress leader said that the "failure of the
team" may have led to the changes.
Asked whether the Advani era was over in Indian politics,
he retorted, "there was never any Advani era in politics".
He said, "When Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in active
politics, Advani was his shadow. When he came out of the
shadow and wanted to do something of his own, he called M A
Jinnah as secular".
Ahmed said that the political downfall of Advani started
the day he called Jinnah as secular.
"Had Jinnah been alive, he would have never claimed that
he was secular," the spokesman said.
PTI
