A second term for Amit Shah as BJP president is still not an impossibility. It will be a negotiated deal though, with adjustments and accommodations.
There has been an expectancy of change at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters at Delhi’s Ashoka Road since the Bihar results came in. Sometimes the air thickens with a sense of urgency and imminent action, as it did on November 10, when four senior leaders of the party — former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, and his Cabinet colleagues from the Vajpayee government, Murli Manohar Joshi, Yashwant Sinha and Shanta Kumar — released a statement bemoaning the “emasculation” of the party organisation by the current leadership.
