INDIA SUMMARIZED

A section of the BJP leadership is ruing a decision it took in March 2011 to not go for the jugular with the Robert Vadra-DLF sweetheart deal. Last week, Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan hogged the headlines as they obtained a match-winning free hit on the Vadra-DLF deal, even though the original story had been done by The Economic Times 18 months ago. It was open to any political party to exploit the issue, but the BJP muffed an easy chance. It is now trying to catch up and present a united face on the subject. But, internally, questions are being asked. Should the party not have taken the opportunity to score anti-corruption brownie points last year itself when the Congress was on the ropes? Here is the inside story on how things unfolded in the BJP after The Economic Times broke the story in March 2011. As soon as the story was published, senior leaders in the BJP began discussing how far they should go in raising the issue. Would it be fair for the BJP, as the principal ...