The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP)' s image of being 'a party with a difference' and disciplined unit stands dented once again. And it is not a rival political group, which has caused the damage.
The opposition party's own firsttime lawmakers are responsible for the loss of reputation as over 40 percent of them skipped a two- day training camp the saffron group organised here in New Delhi on August 28 and August 29 to teach them how to become an effective MP. The long list of absentees included Varun Gandhi, the Lok Sabha MP from Pilibhit, Tarun Vijay, the former editor of Panchjanya and now Rajya Sabha MP, Anurag Thakur, son of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and Lok Sabha MP from the State. While Thakur, Tarun Vijay and 12 others had intimated the party in advance about their inability to attend, Varun Gandhi and 23 others absented without information. The party is in the process of seeking explanation from them. " I'll give the list of absentees to Advaniji and Sushmaji.
It will be for them to seek an explanation," says Ram Naik, the former Union Minister and National Convener of BJP's MPs and MLAs Development Cell.
Naik told The Free Press Journal that the first- time MPs from Goa, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Karnataka could not attend as they had either panchayat or municipal elections in their area. The first time parliamentarians from Bihar, he added, were busy in preparing for the forthcoming assembly polls.
Senior BJP leaders Advani, Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, Arun Jaitely, Bal Apte, Gopinath Munde, SS Ahluwalia and Vinay Sahasrabhuddhe, Director General of Mumbaibased Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini lectured the parliamentarians on different issues. The training camp, organised in a Naturopathy and oga centre on the outskirts of Delhi, was held after a decade. Naik said that the participant MPs had suggested increase in the duration and frequency of the training workshops.
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