BJP must move on

• It is truly said that political parties who fail to occasionally review and revise their political agenda and priorities, also fail to grow (‘Uncivil haggling’ IE, July 13). BJP needs to remember all the time that it didn’t win the election and come to power at the Centre on the RSS agenda but on revising its priorities and political agenda. After being in power for six years, the BJP is surely seen by voters as an alternative to the Congress. If it wants to rise up to the expectations of the people, it will have to draw the Lakshman rekha somewhere between itself and the RSS.

— M.C. Joshi Lucknow

George is right

• Apropos of the report, ‘Advani stays, George says why he should’ (IE, July 12), George Fernandes’ opinion is very appropriate when he says the role of RSS should remained focused on training workers culturally and ideologically. BJP’s focus is on politics and the party should be given freedom to negotiate with like-minded parties in order to come to power. The RSS should not interfere publicly in the political arena. If this is not done, it will be a free-for-all within the Sangh Parivar. The Parivar, in fact, will lose its cohesiveness and cutting edge.

— M. P. Srinivasan New York

Ever Reddy?

• It was only recently that Andhra chief minister, Y.S.R. Reddy, got much praise in Dubai for refusing the gift of a golden ornament. He made it known that he would much prefer the gift going to some poor person in Andhra Pradesh. When YSR can get big money, through fraudulent deals like the recent Volkswagen one, why should he show any interest in small gold ornaments (In Volkswagen name, look who got 11 crore from Andhra’, IE, July 12)?

— Naveen Gorwale Dubai

• The entire episode smacks of corruption from the highest to the lowest rung of the Andhra Pradesh government (‘Not even an MoU but Andhra rushed to pay, lock deal’, IE, July 13). The entire state cabinet should be booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act forthwith and taken into custody. It is high time that a lesson is taught to all politicians, regardless of the tag they bear. Finance Minister Chidambaram should himself recommend this step and Sonia Gandhi should take a lead in the matter, or it may recoil on her and her party. As it is, she is very much in the company of corrupt people, like Laloo Prasad Yadav.

— M.U. Poddar Ranchi