A day after Navjot Singh Sidhu quit the Rajya Sabha and the BJP, the air was thick with rumors in New Delhi that  the wife of suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad and three-time National Executive member of the party Poonam Azad may follow suit. The casus belli in both cases is Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley whose baseless grand ambition, coupled with his acts of omission and commission as a cricket lover, has sparked off resentment among a wide section of party loyalists. NaMo and Amit Shah have tried to douse the flame of mounting anger against AJ by temprarily silencing the irrepressible Sholavadnam native, Subramanian Swamy. But the move of Navjot and Poonam has reignited the cindering embers. Indianmandarins has learnt that Poonam Azad may "soon" resign and join the AAP. She is currently a Delhi BJP spokesperson and was earlier its Vice-President. She has faced growing marginalisation in the party for some years, particularly after the suspension of Kirti Azad, who had launched a bitter attack on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over alleged corruption in DDCA and continued with his tirade despite party chief Amit Shah's intervention. AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal did not miss the opportunity to attack the BJP. "Honest and good people are feeling extremely suffocated within the BJP due to the dictatorial attitude of its top leadership," Kejriwal tweeted. As if the lost victories of Delhi and Bihar were not good enough to teach the former stock broker and party president, the BJP and its Prime Minister are displaying uncanny signs of losing both Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. You know what happens to an army when it replaces war horses with donkeys. This is what the ruling party did in Delhi and Bihar by ignoring people like Harshvardan, Raj Kumar Singh, Bhola Singh and others and pressed into campaigning a non-entity like AJ and his favorite boys whose philosophy of life, like all successful lawyers, is to have all their fingers in the pie all the time. If both Punjab and UP are lost, the BJP will have none to blame except its top two leaders and their policy of downsizing the party's strong and capable leaders by promoting weaklings. The party would have immensely gained if it had promoted Navjot in Punjab like it did in Maharashtra by backing up Devendra Fadnavis. At best, it might have created a fracture in its relationship with SAD. But leaving SAD in the leadership saddle with all sorts of dirty accusations being hurled at it and playing second fiddle to it does not look smart at all. By M K Shukla & rakesh Ranjan