The return to the construction of a Ram Temple at the Ayodhya as an election issue at the BJP National Council meeting shows the acute poverty and chronic lack of strategy and ideas before the general elections. The invocation of Lord Ram's name may excite some hawkish and rogue elements in the party and the rabid hindutva bodies in the Sangh Parivar which makes up the flank forces, but is highly unlikely that it is going to have any effect on the general public.
The country has moved forward in the last many years since the demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992, and the Ram Janmabhoomi issue is no longer potent. It would only showcase how the BJP is cut off from the reality.
The NDA has shrunk in size after the last general elections and even those with it would find the issue (Ram) unacceptable. JD(U) leader and Chief Minister of Bihar has already pointed pointed out that the issue is already outside the NDA election agenda. The very same BJP had de-emphasised this and several others like uniform civil code, and article 370, little will be gained from resurrecting them.
Terrorism and its handling of the government has been a favorite issue with the party, but is unsure with the UPA's proceedings of the same. The BJP is also DEFENSIVE on terror (just remember the remark made by Pramod Muthalik of Mangalore Pub Attack fame on Malegaon blasts) after the role of the hindutva organisations came under scrutiny in the acts of terrorism.
The same confusion is seen in the return to the Gandhian economics (rural stuff..... blah......blah) as an antidote to the current economic crisis. At the end of the day, the BJP leaders have hazy and uncertain ideas with an incoherent and non-appealing electoral strategy.
