On 20 March 2011 22:10, Tony de Sa <[email protected]> wrote: > At one time in Goa, there was a politician albeit an elderly one who was a > member of a now defunct political party and whose name was G Y Bhandare.
"Now defunct political party"? Tony, GY Bhandare was the guy who kept the BJP alive, before the "Young Turks" (primarily Manohar Parrikar) came in and made it acceptable to a section of the ruling elites in Goa. This was even before the post-Bofors Congress was getting increasingly discredited and didn't have anyone ready for the dynastic succession then. If I'm not mistaken (could be wrong here), GY Bhandare probably was also part of the Jan Sangh. But he was part of the BJP itself. His press notes gave the party some oxygen, even if barely, in Goa, as it fumbled -- after its disastrous Janata experiment (anyone remembers George Fernandes, and his "dual loyalty" controversy....?) Subsequently, a new crop of leaders descended on the BJP scene, the MGP-BJP alliance was worked out in the 1994 polls, the MGP was successfully sidetracked... and the rest is history, as they say. We might laugh at GY Bhandare today, but it could be said that some of the leaders of today are standing on his shoulders too. FN
