BJP's rusted tool

 The week saw Rajnath Singh  take out the rusted and unused tool  of  'Apology '  from the BJP kit bag Hitherto ,a hesitant BJP stepping into 2014 campaign after a powerless decade ,was pursuing its  familiar majoritarian theme. Emboldened by a beleaguered  Congress battling past sins and staying on the back foot, BJP is making its first unfamiliar moves on minority management.The retrospective / prospective  ambiguities of its President's apology is proof enough of its lack of conviction Or was it merely to provide a fig leaf of an excuse for Paswan, and hopefully others ,to return to the NDA fold.Secularism seems to be the trade-in currency in the election Bazaar. The third Front had been using this regularly, not that it had helped in the formation of a stable third entity of power, but good enough to effectively play the numbers game for a post- poll power share. BJP seems to have hit upon this as a sub- strategy as it feels that this time round it can touch a 200 plus tally.It goes without saying that Narendra Modi will keep himself insulated from these goings on. Even otherwise ' apology ' does not exist in his dictionary much less in his vocabulary !.