ALAS! ADVANI!

– AN UNSALABLE

PRIME MINISTER

-Part 2

CHARGESHEET AGAINST ADVANI

by V. SUNDARAM I.A.S (retd.)
     And
  Praveen Shanker Pillai

In Part 1 of this article we narrated how LK Advani used the cover of NDA’s Common Minimum Program to hide his failures as Union Home Minister.

AS THE NDA PRIME MINISTER MR VAJPAYEE FULLY PROTECTED THE SONIA GANDHI. DR SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY HAS PUBLICLY STATED THREE SUCH INSTANCES.

1. Rahul Gandhi was arrested at Boston’s Logan Airport in September 2001. He had 160,000 dollars in cash. This would have got him 128 years in jail. Brijesh Mishra, the then Principal Secretary to the NDA Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, had intervened with the US Secretary of State, and arrangements were made get to Rahul Gandhi released. Brijesh Mishra was duly honoured by the anti-Hindu traitor from Italy with the award of Padma Vibhushan for his services not to the country but to the Nehru-Gandhi Family. For Brijesh Mishra, Bharat Mata meant Sonia Gandhi.

2. Extradition of Ottavio Quattrocchi from Malaysia. The Malaysian Government informed the Indian Government that they had decided to extradite Quattrocchi to India and. Quattrocchi told Sonia Gandhi that if he has to go to Indian Jail then he will speak out everything. Then Sonia Gandhi went to Vajpayee. And Vajpayee ensured that the CBI lawyer in Malaysia was selected by the Quattrocchi. Vajpayee explained that his Government was not interested in the Quattrocchi extradition. He felt that taking an anti-Quattrocchi stand would hamper the smooth function of his Coalition Government. Consequently, Quattrocchi won his case easily in a Malayasian Court and went back to Italy in triumph.

3. Vajpayee again ensured that the CBI lawyer in Delhi High Court was a Congressman who took up many of Sonia Gandhi’s cases, especially in election matters. The case referred to Sonia Gandhi receiving payments from Russian KGB and smuggling our paintings and our Murtis from our temples and having them auctioned in Italy.

Dr Subramanian Swamy says that ever since Indira Gandhi died Vajpayee was blackmailed by the Nehru family. WHY VAJPAYEE WAS BLACKMAILED AND FOR WHAT HE WAS BLACKMAILED? This is for Mr Vajpayee and all his Cabinet Ministers to clarify.

THE BJP AND THE NDA MET WITH A WELL DESERVED DEFEAT IN THE 2004 GENERAL ELECTIONS, AND FAILED TO MUSTER A PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY.

On 10th April 2005, the Sarsanghchaalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, K.S. Sudarshan, told a television channel that both the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and L.K. Advani, should step down to make way for "new faces" and a "younger leadership".

In a no-hold barred press briefing on 13th April 2005, the VHP Vice President Giriraj Kishore seconded RSS chief K Sudarshan’s advice to Vajpayee and Advani that they should retire from active politics and make way for next generation. Accusing Vajpayee of torpedoing the Hindu movement in the country, Kishore said that the former PM Vajpayee’s foster son-in-law Ranjan Bhattacharya belonged to ‘American lobby’ and had ‘direct links with Italy’.

On 30 December 2005 Vajpayee took sanyaas but LK Advani held on gracelessly and greedily to the party posts in BJP.

Bewildered by the 2004 defeat, Advani went on a MANDATORY SECULAR PILGRIMAGE to Pakistan in June 2005. L.K. Advani, had praised Mohammed Ali Jinnah, as a secular leader during his visit to Pakistan, without verifying facts. That controversial statement bestowing the halo of a “secular leader” on Jinnah was greatly resented by the Hindu masses. Ultimately it led to large scale criticism of Advani's wrong perception and he had to step down from the office of BJP President. The RSS saw was how Advani had been ‘brainwashed’ by his new “secular” “inclusive” friends. Over a period of time, the consultative decision-making apparatus within the BJP came to be supplanted by those who supposedly had Advani's ear. Past BJP Presidents like Murli Manohar Joshi were cut to size publicly, not because it was good for the party but because Advani’s aides thought that's what Advani would want. Power passed from the party to consultants; those who supposedly had Advani's ear. Advani had no programs and no strategy for the BJP, nothing but his overweening ambition of becoming the Prime Minister of India.

WHAT WAS ADVANI’S TRACK RECORD AS THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY BJP?

1. SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
In the past nine years from 2004 to 2013, in the Centre, the Congress leadership has had it easy. Advani was considerably responsible for this sucking up to the Nehru-Gandhi looters and plunderers. He has not been able to bring about even one No Confidence Motion against the Sonia Congress kleptocracy. As Vijayan Krishna rightly pointed out Advani is solely responsible for handing over Karnataka Government to a demoralised and cornered Sonia Cong Party. Advani minions, Sushma Swaraj and Ananth Kumar have been needling Chief Minister BS Yeddiyurappa from day one and ultimately managed his ouster from Karnataka Government and the Bharatiya Janata Party as well. Has a Deal has been struck between Advani and the Alien dispensation headed by Sonia Gandhi, ruling India that he will be allowed to lead an even more emasculated NDA to a Marginal Victory in next year’s elections provided he toed the anti-Hindu “Secular” Line and permitted the Nehru-Gandhi’s public Loot to remain untouched?

2. LACK OF CREDIBILITY
On September 18, 2005, LK Advani became the first BJP leader to convey to the RSS publicly that the BJP could do without its “micromanagement” and that "everyone (should) mind their own business". He delivered this blunt public message to his party's ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), when he wound up the BJP national executive in Chennai. Advani Yet, eight years later, on June 11, 2013, Advani accepted a “settlement” brokered by the RSS after a 36-hour standoff. He withdrew his dramatic resignation from all posts in the BJP after his supporters and aides raised a hue and cry about the very same “micromanagement”, supposedly in favour of Narendra Modi, which enabled BJP chief Rajnath Singh to declare the Gujarat strongman as head of the BJP's Lok Sabha Election Campaign Panel. No wonder, Advani's critics could not help remarking that the veteran leader doesn't mind the RSS “micromanagement” of BJP affairs if it works in his favour.

3. DIMINISHING ELECTORAL APPEAL
The tell-tale signs of Advani's diminishing appeal were there for all to see. The requests by candidates during the various Assembly Elections for a public meeting to be addressed by Advani shrank embarrassingly. The BJP central office often had to browbeat BJP candidates into hosting an Advani meeting just to prevent the jaded and now jolted old war horse from feeling completely unwanted.

The Hindus of India thought it fit to hand over another defeat to the Advani-led BJP another time in 2009 General Elections.

BJP, which did not take stock of the election defeat in 2004 under the leadership of Advani, was again prevented by the Advani mafia controlling the BJP Central leadership from taking stock of its second consecutive defeat in 2009 under the leadership of Advani.

In a mature democratic polity, Advani should have retired from public life after the 2009 defeat. After playing footsie with Sonia Gandhi in the Parliament, this greedy man Advani in his dotage, has been infected with the contagious VIRUS of Nehru-Gandhi-itis – An inordinate sense of super-incumbent entitlement to the detriment of the common man (or Mango Person as Robert Vadra so drolly put it). Advani thinks that as a settled matter of gratuitous right, he is entitled to become the Prime Minister of India, if only for six months, in the event of BJP coming to power in 2014 General Elections.

Fortunately for India and her people, the BJP-RSS cadre and the Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, Shri Mohan Bhagawat guided by the patriotic ideology of Hindutva, took a moral and principled stand against the politics of unscrupulous political opportunism and greed of Vajpayee-Advani duo and drastically cut down Advani to manageable size.

Ref: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/advani-resigns-for-the-third-time-in-8-years/397767-37-64.html
Advani resigns for the third time in 8 years. Press Trust of India. Jun 10, 2013

http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=615303
CBI seeks death penalty for IC-814 hijack accused". Outlook India. 2 October 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2012.

http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/jaswant-escorting-terrorists-not-good-decision-kandahar-negotiator_590646.html#sthash.btu9xEd5.dpuf
http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/11/stories/2005041106550100.htm
Sudershan asks Advani, Vajpayee to make way for new faces
By Neena Vyas NEW DELHI, APRIL 10.

http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2005/04/13/now-vhp-asks-vajpayee-and-advani-retire
Now VHP asks Vajpayee and Advani to retire.
From Narendra Kaushik

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/last-stand-against-change/1127920/0
‘Last stand against change’ by Swapan Dasgupta : Wed Jun 12 2013.