As a matter of fact BJP does not care about it .
Many top leaders in the BJP are of the opinion that NaMo should not even apply for a visa to US even if elected .
Instead should only visit US if an invitation is put forward by US .
As a matter of fact ...BJP cares about it . that's why Rajnath Singh was ready to ' discuss' the issue while in US .
The turn of events however forced him to drop that ...
Now that the probability of BJP and Narendra modi has gone up .....they are acting 'strong ' .
They know it very well that once Narendra modi becomes PM , US will have to swallow its pride ..and accord the status to him commiserate with the post he holds as Premier of India ...
US should have been smarter than this. They underestimated Modi & were under the illusion that Modi's political career will not take him to the top job. So they were just playing to the gallery & were trying to earn kudos from so called secular mob. Now... they are in a fix.....& will be looking for avenues to save their face.
They are shameless . They have done such vote face 'n' number of times ...
all the hue and cry about human rights , values and justice etc is for the show ...
US however still watching the developments in India closely ...
Since lot of political uncertainty remains ...they will wait for the results of General elections .
Once the results are out and if it becomes clear that Narendra modi is going to be PM , they will be first to congratulate him ...and invite too .
Do you think Narendra Modi is going to forget the public humiliation caused by US state department by indicting him without trial ...???
I don't think so ...
as you said it was a great blunder ...US did not anticipate that Narendra Modi will rise in such fashion to be contender for PM post ....
This will off course steer Narendra Modi's India away from US ( Modi is expected to maintain distance from US ...he will only go for working relationship with US . He won't become Love-sick with US as our great PM MMS was ....)