The Ram Party's modern Sitamata
April 11, 2014 The BJP started out as the Ram party with the Maryada Purshottam as its mascot; held responsible for escalation of community disharmony; while one elder statement Atal Bihari Vajpayee preached Raj dharam but did not implement it; another elder statesman, L K Advani presided over the destruction of an aged mosque to spark off riots all over the country and perhaps became a tool to blackmail him forever more. In 2014, the BJP made a huge national hulla over the fact that no other party had announced a Prime Ministerial candidate --- only the BJP had. It quietly swallowed the fact that all other parties had released their manifestoes (for whatever paper and ink they are worth), while the Ram party chose to release its regurgled version after the elections had actually begun. Once again it has trotted out its commitment to build a Ram temple to add to the dozens of such ram temples at Ayodhya – a feat it conspicuously failed to do during its own NDA terms. It