Monday, August 31, 2009

Kalyan Singh - Satrap on a slippery turf

Once a powerful BJP satrap, Kalyan Singh is today happy to play second fiddle to SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. “He lost his face and faith when he joined Mulayam,” says Hriday Narain Dikshit, UP BJP vice-president.

When he was in the BJP, the trio of Rajnath Singh, Kalraj Mishra and Lalji Tandon used every trick in the book to unseat him but in vain. On his part, he sought to queer the pitch for Vajpayee in the 1999 Lok Sabha polls. A rattled Vajpayee had to do road shows to save his turf. Kalyan was expelled from the party.

Kalyan, a lifelong RSS worker, forgot that abandoning a cadre-based party can be tricky.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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