Making light of the ongoing one-upmanship in the BJP,ally Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has said the RSS,BJP president Nitin Gadkari and senior party leader LK Advani have formed a concoction that is troubling Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. In an editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna on Saturday,Thackeray cautioned the BJP thinktank about the Modi versus Advani fight and advised that it be stopped. Modi and BS Yeddyurappa had skipped the two-day BJP national executive meet on Friday. The Shiv Sena has been sharing a two-decade alliance with the BJP in Maharashtra. The editorial says a triphala churn (a concoction of ayurvedic ingredients for cleansing) was concocted in Nagpur by the RSS,Gadkari and Advani and it is troubling Modi. Thackeray also gave his observations of the three-day fast by Modi last month,to attend which Sena leaders had gone to Guajrat. He notes that the entire BJP leadership was on stage when Modi launched his Sadbhavana fast but after a bid to showcase him as the next Prime Minister,many leaders of the party did not attend the public rally organized later by Modi. This has angered Modi who has boycotted the national executive meet,says Thackeray. At the time,we had said that sadbhavana may be achieved in Gujarat but had asked if it will be maintained in the party. Did not think would get to see it so soon, Thackeray writes. Modi embodies Gujarat and is synonymous with the party in the state. Gujarat was an experiment for BJP but everyone knows that if chemicals in an experiment go wrong,there can be a blast,adds Thackeray. Thackeray further states that Advani announcing that his yatra against corruption would be launched from Bihar and that Nitish Kumar - the Bihar CM had joked about Modis fast - would flag off the rally was unfortunate. During the Bihar election campaign,Nitish had banned Modi from touring the state,Thackeray reminds in the editorial. We just hope the ingredients of this concoction help cleanse the party and do not go wrong, warns Thackeray.
