From the nationalist viewpoint, if in the final analysis it appears that BJP's move has been defeated with no public backlash, its obvious MMS wins
Is "nationalist" a code word for the BJP boneheadness , if so, thanks I want no part of it. The subverting of "nationalist" as equating to BJP is the equivalent of the subversion of the word "secular" by the Church, the Muslim Clergy and others who want special privileges (the irony is that while the Pope rails against secularism in Europe and US, the catholic church in India sings paeans to it in India and wants more of it).
Fact is, this is political grandstanding by the BJP, trying to use their one trick pony routine , "the yatra" to mobilize some nut cases on a very divisive agenda and try to clothe itself in a halo of self righteousness. Sorry, it is an old broken trick, way past it's sell by date, no one is going to give a rat's Musharraf. It is a party up the sh*t creek without a paddle.
Why should something like a Republic Day become some nutcase party's wedge agenda , and that too in the name of "nationalism". I think once ABV retired, the BJP simply lost whatever remaining ounce of commonsense, decency and basic human values it had.
The Yeddys and the others of their ilk who sent folks out on trains (which were handled brilliantly in Maharashtra

) are total dead enders.