New Delhi: RSS has supported BJP chief Rajnath Singh over his selection of the party's national executive and office-bearers in which Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was dropped from Parliamentary Board.
The RSS statement has come after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's endorsement of Rajnath’s team.
In his comments on Thursday, Vajpayee set his seal of approval on Singh's new team, saying it was formed after a lot of thought.
The endorsement came as a row appeared to be brewing in the BJP over removal of Modi from its Parliamentary Board and General Secretary Arun Jaitley, the BJP's prominent media face, as spokesman.
"The new team is a carefully crafted exercise in political manoeuvre and accommodation," as quoted by PTI, an editorial in Sangh mouthpiece Organiser said.
The Sangh organ noted that the party has been a victim of bad press since it lost the 2004 general elections.
"Even its good performance in state assembly and local bodies' elections could not change that media disdain," it said as news reports suggested that the removal of Jaitley as the chief spokesman and Modi from the highest-decision making body of the party could have an adverse impact on Singh.
The RSS publication appeared to be rejecting notions that the BJP chief carried out changes out of personal preferences.
"He (Singh) resisted the temptation to change for its own sake. He has cobbled together a young team of office-bearers, sticking to the principle of continuity with change," the Organiser wrote.
It described Singh's selection as a "perfectly inclusive team in an organisationally exclusive structure". "The beauty is that he has not disturbed the rhythm of the onward march."
The Sangh paper maintained that Singh has carried out minimum changes among the BJP's national executive and office-bearers.
"By effecting minimum possible changes, he has tried to accommodate and balance all sections, both new blood and old guard. Sagacity, cohesion and purpose, rather than personal choices, seem to have weighed heavily in the making of the change over set-up. This is a hard task executed with artistic finesse," the Organiser said.
It called Singh's national executive and office-bearers a "a new face, new look team", saying it had been sculptured essentially out of the party's established and proven leadership composition.
The Sangh organ also noted that some news analyses about the new BJP's team lacked objectivity. "Some of them were rather obtusely self-serving though not exactly hostile," it said.
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