New Delhi: BJP leader L K Advani (pictured), who had last month expressed dissatisfaction over the way party was functioning, has remarked that he was more of a blogger these days than a political activist.
Advani’s remarks, made at a book release here, came in response to comments of a speaker earlier that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader had scripted growth of his party but was now finding himself left in the middle of a stream. “I certainly like to do a blog. (I am) more of a blogger these days then I am a political activist. Hence, some people say in sympathy that I have been left mid-stream,” Advani said.
The BJP leader regularly posts his views and writings on his blog.
Advani had resigned from key party posts last month, a day after elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as campaign chief of BJP for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. He had relented after the intervention of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Advani, who released the book A view from the Raisina Hill by journalist P P Balachandran at Press Club here, said that the year 1989 marked “a turning point” for the BJP.
He said the party won 86 seats in 1989 polls compared to two it had won in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections. “I used to tell my partymen after the 1984 polls that there was no reason to be despondent. These were not Lok Sabha but shok sabha polls (mourning polls — a reference to sympathy for the Congress in the wake of assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984),” he said. IANS
