Senior BJP leader Dr Murli Manohar Joshi is now distancing himself from LK Advani on the Bihar debacle.


Two days after the crushing defeat in the crucial polls and a day before Diwali, the veterans  -- Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Yashwant Sinha -- lashed out at Team Modi in a statement saying, "To say that everyone is responsible for the defeat in Bihar is to ensure that no one is held responsible. It shows that those who would have appropriated credit if the party had won are bent on shrugging off responsibility for the disastrous showing in Bihar.""


The bonhomie within the old guard seems to have vanished now.


An insider in the party says that Dr Joshi after having two rounds of discussions with RSS leaders will be heading to its headquarters in Nagpur. The meeting has been organised by by Nitin Gadkari and is aimed at ironing out the differences between BJP leaders and Dr Murli Manohar Joshi.


In next few days BJP president Amit Shah is also set to convene the Margadharshak Mandal where issues will be sorted out and a new policy direction towards implementation of BJP's national manifesto will be
deliberated. In short the revival of Ram Mandir might may well be discussed at the Margardharshak Mandal.


Party insiders say that right wing organisations like the Vishva Hindu Parishad and the Sangh Parivar have raised the issue of the Ram Temple construction time and again, but after the Bihar poll results the issue may actually gain currency.