BJP leadership: A wide open field

The BJP likes to boast that unlike the Congress, which has a dynastic lien on succession, it has an abundance of potential prime ministerial candidates. But having too many leaders in contention can be problematic. It was to prevent potentially damaging intra-party warfare among rivals that BJP President Nitin Gadkari let it be known that the the party’s prime ministerial candidate would be chosen only after the 2014 polls and not before. His statement, clearly with the approval of the RSS, upset the calculations of at least two frontrunners, who have not been too subtle in throwing their hats into the ring.

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