In Atal ji’s mould | The Indian Express

In Atal ji’s mould | The Indian Express

Written by Ram Madhav |Updated: August 27, 2019 12:47:27 am

The writer is national general secretary, BJP, and director, India Foundation.

In Atal ji’s mould

Like Vajpayee, Arun Jaitley was a quintessential democrat. Atal ji used poetry to express himself, Jaitley used prose.

In over three decades of political life, Jaitley had moulded himself into an institution. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)

What a cruel destiny it is to be forced into writing obituaries every few months. In the past five years, we in the BJP have lost six young and dedicated leaders to untimely deaths. First, it was Gopinath Munde, followed by Anil Madhav Dave, Ananth Kumar, Manohar Parrikar, Sushma Swaraj, and now Arun Jaitley. We lost our beloved Atal ji too. No single political party in Indian history has faced such tragedy.