How BJP will interpret and disseminate Vajpayee's political legacy

In an era in which political communication is characterised by grand gestures and mega-events, the BJP did not allow people to forget Vajpayee for a minute after his death through Modi's persona

If it’s a question of excavating, interpreting, assessing, distilling and disseminating a legacy spread over two phases from 1951 to 1977 and 1980 to now, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its progenitor, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), have not been particularly adept at handling the complex processes that shaped their history although the BJP has gamely appropriated other parties’ inheritance by enshrining certain icons, notably Sardar Vallabhai Patel,  in its pantheon of greats. 

The BJS-BJP sanctuary has a fixed place for three individuals who marked defining moments in the parties’ chronicles: Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of the BJS;