Doctor first

The ongoing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Executive in Goa has been making news for all the wrong reasons and, quite expectedly, #Goa and #LKA (Lal Krishna Advani) are among the top trends on Twitter. Advani's absence from the opening day of the Goa meet citing "ill health" had provided much ammunition to Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhury who derided the "Namo-nitis" that is spreading and afflicting senior BJP leaders, in an obvious reference to the growing schism between Advani and Narendra Modi. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javdekar, however, dismissed her comment as "Congress' Modi phobia". But when news of veteran leader Advani skipping the meet altogther "on doctor's advice" came in, the BJP was left red-faced with much explaining to do. Twitter is abuzz such comments: "Only people who fake sickness to avoid unpleasantness or punishment: school kids and Indian politicians", and "LKA sick with envy".