The demolition has come about in a relatively short span of a little over three years. Since she left the BJP over two years ago, she has lost every single election that the candidates sponsored by her fought in MP, UP and Gujarat including the seat she vacated (Bade Malehra in Bundelkhand in MP) to challenge the BJP. Defeated, the Bhartiya Jan Shakti Party (BJS) that she founded after leaving the BJP is in a complete shambles. Most of her ardent supporters, fed up with her flip-flop on the issue of rejoining the BJP, fearing apocalypse, have either already jumped off her sinking ship or are about to desert her. All her political moves to date have boomeranged on her. Continuous strain has taken a heavy toll of her health. No wonder then that the political pundits have started writing the final chapter of her political life. Sadly all this has come about because of a series of acts of omission and commission and errors of judgment.

From the day of her entry into BJP at the behest of Rajmata Scindia, she launched forth as a much sought after star public performer. She took the Hindi belt by storm and was the queen of all that she surveyed. She was one of the architects of the BJP led NDA coalition at the Centre. Her weight and contribution were duly recognized by the grateful BJP. She was inducted as a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpyee-led NDA government. Unfortunately for her, her performance as a Minister in the Union Cabinet was nothing to write home about. She rapidly started losing her sheen but mercifully her standing as a popular leader and a vote getter remained intact and was never in doubt. Come state assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, the Sadhvi was the natural choice for leading the electoral battle against the redoubtable Digvijay Singh, the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. She not only did it successfully but also beat all previous records of BJP victories. She was the obvious choice for the post of the Chief Minister of the state.

Once again she proved to be a poor administrator. The state went adrift with charges of poor governance and corruption. The BJP wanted to remove her but was afraid of her popular appeal. As luck would have it, an arrest warrant in an old case against her from a Hubli (Karnataka) court came handy to the High Command to make her resign her post, to use a cliché " in the highest traditions of public morality till she had cleared herself of the charges." She was given to understand that on exoneration she could come back to take over the reins of the state and till then Babu Lal Gaur, her nominee could be the caretaker Chief Minister. She fell to the bait. By the time the Hubli case was over and she wanted to return to the state as the Chief Minister, she was shocked to find that the BJP High Command had different ideas. She saw in it a conspiracy by the second rung party leaders and started publicly lambasting them. Intent on not letting her take charge of the state administration, the High Command's stand against her hardened. She was horrified when she learnt that the High Command had made up their mind to foist their nominee, the present Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the state.

Angry at being cheated of her legitimate due she revolted. She walked out of the BJP Legislature Party's meeting called in Bhopal to elect Shivraj Singh as the Chief Minister of the state hoping that her supporters would also stage a walk out in protest. The rest is history. Unfortunately for her this didn't happen. Only a handful MLAs followed her. By now all of them have gone back to the BJP. Some of them are happily ensconced in Ministers' seats. Failure indeed has no friends. One false step after another and her flip-flop on rejoining the BJP have isolated her from her supporters so much so that her staunch loyalist and co-founder of the BJS, Prahalad Patel is so terribly upset with her that the two are not on talking terms. A standing testimony to her growing isolation is that a good number of members of the BJS central executive committee have stopped attending the CEC meetings called by her. After throwing several hints about her rejoining the BJP and denying them equally vehemently, on January 30, she said in Bhopal that she was not averse to an alliance with the BJP in the forthcoming assembly elections. To her further chagrin, the BJP has been cold to her overtures. To day she is surrounded by a handful of inconsequential people and is a distant shadow of what she was in the last decade straddling the two millennia.