Saturday, April 2 2005 20:35 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: As Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gears up to celebrate its silver jubilee next week, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak (RSS) today (Apr 2, 2005) cautioned it against "ideological dilution and bickering for spoils of power", which have tanned its "otherwise glittering" profile.

"No party can aspire to be all things to all sections. Every party has its catchments segment. The ideological dilution and bickering for the spoils of power have to some extent tanned its otherwise glittering profile.

"It is not enough to believe that indiscipline is a way of life in contemporary politics. People really mind absence of idealism and ideology, and the BJP loses elections more as a consequence of cadre weariness than voter disenchantment", said an editorial on the party's silver jubilee in the latest issue of RSS mouthpiece 'Organiser'.

While wishing the party on its 25th year, it said, "The word of caution is to remain catholic in its ideological moorings and brand equity; party with a difference".

It said that the silver jubilee celebration programme offered an occasion for the BJP to "review its policies, anchored as they are on the martyrdom of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee to save Kashmir for India, Deendayalji's integral humanism, the sacrifice of millions of Swayamsevak on movements for national rejuvenation like Ramjanmabhumi, uniform civil code and the fight against Emergency".

Heaping praise on BJP for shaping itself as the "party of the future", the organ said, "Its phenomenal success is not only in replacing Congress as the number one political formation in the country, but in projecting an altogether novel development strategy, administrative culture, social philosophy and vision of a super power India".