English newspaper The Telegraph quoted bjp sources as saying that it wants to end the dominance of Advani
era leaders in the party. The biggest contenders for Chief Ministership in madhya pradesh, rajasthan and
Chhattisgarh are still counted within the bjp as Chief Ministers of the Advani era. In 2013, Lal krishna Advani
had openly supported Shivraj Singh Chouhan. amit Shah’s enmity with vasundhara raje is also well known.
Since the rise of Modi within bjp, Advani’s camp gradually became sidelined in BJP. Yashwant Sinha and
Shatrughan Sinha of Advani group have left the party. murli manohar joshi is currently a member of the
Margdarshak Mandal. However, this committee has not met for the last 8 years. The last meeting of the
Margdarshak Mandal was held at Lal krishna Advani's house in 2015.
Strategy to give opportunity to new leadership
Talking to The Telegraph, top bjp leaders say – This message has been given in all three states that the Chief
minister will be chosen by the Parliamentary Board. The leader said that after winning the elections, it is
possible that Vasundhara-Shivraj may become Chief Ministers, but this is not 100 percent correct. After
winning the elections in Assam, bjp had given the post of chief minister from sarbananda sonowal to Himanta
Biswa Sarma. The party had talked about this experiment to give a chance to the new leadership. The party high
command has also experimented with changing the chief minister in gujarat and Uttarakhand.
Experts say that bjp is now gradually working on the strategy of showing the best to the high command like
Congress. Because, the members of the parliamentary board from which it is being said to choose the cm, most
of the members of that board have only 19 years of political experience except Shivraj Singh Chauhan,
vasundhara raje and Raman Singh. According to Telegraph, many big leaders of the party do not agree with
this strategy. He believes that this strategy can backfire and increase factionalism in the states. Anyway, bjp is
already struggling with internal factionalism in madhya pradesh and Rajasthan.
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