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My heart goes for Mr. Lal Krishna Advani. All his life he remained under the shadow of Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee and when the time came to bask in the glory, he missed and messed it up. After being with RSS in formative years, it is difficult for me to dilute my attachment from old guards of Jan Sangh. But Mr. Advani and BJP gradually but surely lost the claim of 'Party with Difference' when many moments came to test his mettle as an 'Iron Man'. As a home minister, he allowed to ‘trade in’ terrorists in Kandahar tragedy and later expressed a personal regret yet justified the decision as a collective responsibility of the cabinet. Second instance was when he with other echelons in the BJP wavered to act decisively against Mr. Bangaru Laxman thereby losing the sheen of 'incorruptibility'. The third episode was ' Jinnah'. There was nothing wrong with his statement that Mr. Mohd Ali Jinnah was secular. He was indeed a secular person and his dreams of carving ...

Indian general election is over. For the first time in the history of Republic of India, results would be available by the switch of the button than by the opening of the ballot boxes. Manual counting of votes had its own share of fun and suspense. Results would trickle in after every round of counts that would swing the pendulum from one side to another. Some results, often from south be announced by late noon while some from Bihar would still be on the way even though new govt would have announced. This time 100 million out of 700 million electorate are first time voters. That is 7% of the electorate. What an irony! These youngsters have to choose between 80-year-old Mr. Advani of BJP and 77-year-old Mr Manmohan Singh of Congress. Places where these two parties are not strong they have another regional parties headed by 85 year old Mr Karunanidhi in Tamil Nadu and 82 year old Mr Badal in Punjab . I am relieved that this election had no bomb blasts, terrorist attacks, kidnapping or bo...