The party, which ruled the country for 58 years and now a marginal opposition in Parliament, is currently not at peace itself. BDP diehards are incessantly at each others' throats, which might distract the focus of a party burdened with an urgent need to reverse the 2024 General Election losses. The battle for the soul of the once mighty political juggernaut seemingly presents the former ruling party with trials as a house diametrically alienated. Bitter wrangling also poses a threat as another spoiler if not contained timeously. Blame game post the party’s poor performance in last year’s General Election has become the order of the day with fingers pointed at former president, Mokgweetsi Masisi. Loyal operatives and across the party's main organs have left the party in numbers. At best, its leadership and diehards should deal with the party’s quandaries as a collective rather than playing the blame game. The BDP would need a forum of reconciliation by its operatives to help the cadres work as a unit and bury the past differences even beyond the impending elective congress. Otherwise, if the status quo is maintained, the party’s dream of bouncing back to its former glory days will remain elusive.
Former Cabinet minister, Kabo Morwaeng, this week buttressed the need for the party to facilitate reconciliation that will see diehards wholeheartedly burying the hatchet as this was an elephant in the room. Addressing a press conference, Morwaeng who is also Molepolole South Member of Parliament, acknowledged that the reconciliatory process would enable them to heal ahead of the crucial elective congress and forge ahead in solidifying its position on the political landscape. The blame game in the BDP is not only amongst foot soldiers as ex-Executive members are pointing fingers at each. Post the 2024 polls, one of Masisi’s loyalist and trusted ally blasted his former boss. The former Agriculture minister openly chastised Masisi for failing the BDP as the party’s head honcho and its chief campaigner.
