Bhishma on bed of arrows

The BJP was leveraging Hindu religious leaders who'd banded under the Vishwa Hindu Parishad for building a Ram temple at the site of a masjid, notes Aditi Phadnis. L K Advani's place in modern Indian political history is secure on the strength of his having presided over the biggest Hindu consolidation the country has seen. Like it or not, it happened. He led the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign that led to the destruction of the Babri Masjid in the early 1990s, declaring at the same time when this ...

PANAJI: A reluctant LK Advani, who communicated to his partymen through 'sulk' and ill health for the first two days of the BJP conclave, on Sunday may have used metaphors to convey his feelings.The BJP stalwart's blog entry June on 9

While l'affaire Advani may have been a case of "Dhriatrashtra" feigning to act like "Bhishma”, the next one year will see many BJP big-wigs in Delhi decimated, as the Gujarat Model comes to the capital On July 11,oven fresh from his anointment as chairman ...

New Delhi: A day after BJP patriarch LK Advani resigned from all key positions in the party following Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modis elevation to become head of 2014 Lok Sabha election, top BJP leaders including Rajnath Singh and Nitin ...

Whether its L.K. Advani or Anna Hazare, the elderly understand full well that the one power young(er) India has not been able to wrest from them is the power of emotional blackmail. Petulant Bhishma-pitamaha he might be, but Advani understood this is Baghban ...

A generation of senior BJP leaders, many of whom were known to be close to Advani, was finished politically during Modi's rule. These include Keshubhai Patel, late Kashiram Rana, Suresh Mehta, Bhavna Chikhalia, Vallabh Kathiria, Nalin Bhatt, K D Jeswani, ...

and NDA are calling him Bhishma Pitamah. Do they realise they are likening themselves to

A BJP press release stated that RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat asked Advani to respect the BJP Parliamentary Board's decision and take back his resignation. A day after BJP stalwart Lal Krishna Advani resigned form all positions in the saffron party, BJP President ...

On a day his pre-eminence in the BJP — a party which was catapulted to the national stage primarily because of his Ram Rath Yatra in the early '90s — took a decisive blow, an "unwell" L K Advani penned a blog entry which had references to a ...