Ranchi, May 22: The 12-day-long demonstration of the BJP before the chief minister’s residence has virtually boiled down to a personal show of strength for several leaders.

Under the plan, cadre from two districts were selected to show their strength each day.

Each team was put under the command of influential leaders of respective districts.

On May 12, the first day of the agitation, the BJP team led by former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha marched towards the “prohibited zone” of the chief minister’s residence.

Sinha fainted and the incident obviously hit the headlines. Thereafter, the protest march virtually turned into BJP leaders’ mission to outdo their “predecessors”, BJP insiders pointed out.

In fact, they were devising ways to dodge the police and enter into the prohibited zone and invite the police wrath.

BJP MLAs Sarayu Roy and Raghubar Das led the agitation on May 20. The police had to lathicharge to shoo away the agitators. Then it was the turn of P.N. Singh, the BJP’s state unit president, to outdo others. He received head injury from the blows of lathi and was admitted to a local hospital.

Little wonder, Opposition leader Arjun Munda, who has to lead the “grand finale” tomorrow, has given a call to the cadre from all the districts to participate in the agitation.