A change of guard at the BJP, from the old to the young

The News Minute | August 9, 2014 | 3.25 pm ISTIn Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, outgoing Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh said: “We can say that the only cadre and ideology based party left (now) is the BJP. Congress has neither ideology nor cadre.”Singh was speaking at the National Council meeting of the BJP on Saturday, in which Amit Shah took over the reins of the party from the senior leader from UP. Stating that he was handing over charge to a young worker, Rajnath Singh made interesting points about the BJP and Indian politics, Amit Shah took the line that the BJP was the party of the poor.Read Amit Shah’s speech here, and Rajnath Singh’s speech here.