What went wrong ?

All said and done with the BJP (and I) biting dust some serious introspection is needed.

"What went wrong?" though would be the obvious question, I suggest to ask "what has not gone wrong?" since this list would be good to hear and soon to finish.

so What went WRONG with the BJP?

1. the fundamentals.

The very basis on which the party was built and the very purpose of the existence has been turned a deaf ear to.

Importance to people over ideology is a mistake a party like BJP cannot commit. Projecting people as star leaders or stars was never supposed to be in the genes of the party.

Let alone allowing, or pressing for the accomodation of, kith and kin into the process of leadership at various levels, coming in the way of the organic growth of the process of leadership which was the only way leadership was supposed to have evolved, if the distintive reason for the birth and the existence of the party is to be considered.

In a country with huges masses of semi or moderately educated youth, I do understand, the presence of a celebrity or a star would sway them but would it help propagate your ideology?

It is the base that has to be strengthened first. The organisation has to be in robust manner that would not need the presence of a "star" who otherwise lives in a sucked-up world to come and explain to people why they should vote for you...