The party’s leaders must introspect and realise that no battle can be won if the local commander is humiliated and the cadre demoralised. As the election result has conclusively proved, hardly 10 per cent of the voters were actually familiar with the BJP’s programme, its views on national issues and blueprint for the future. Sermons of morality are futile if strategies are planned without considering the ground realities. Such an approach will be counter-productive, as Karnataka has proved.
