Chandravanshi Vajpayee and Advani's 'Jugalbandi'?

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A few months before the 1996 elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party organized a big rally at Shivaji Park in Mumbai.

68-year-old Lal Krishna Advani was the president of the party for almost a decade. He gave the party a new direction and attitude by running the Ram temple movement.

Vajpayee, 70 years older than Advani, had lagged behind in the race for party leadership. He was respected in the party, but whenever the future prime ministerial candidate of the party was talked about, Advani's name was first taken.

But when Advani announced Vajpayee's name for the party's future prime ministerial candidate at Shivaji Park's public meeting that day, the people present there could not believe his ears.

On May 22, 1996, an article in Outlook magazine 'A Tale of Two Chiefs' reported that "when Vajpayee questioned Advani as to why his consent was not taken before making such an important announcement, Advani in turn questioned him." , If I had asked you, would you have said yes to my proposal? "

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Advani and Vajpayee

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Did not agree with RSS about making announcement

Vinay Sitapathi, who recently wrote the well-known book 'Jugalbandi - The BJP before Modi' on Vajpayee-Advani relations, says that Govindacharya, who was then BJP general secretary, told him that after this announcement, he questioned Advani that you would ask the RSS How can you make such an important announcement without asking?

He told that "Advani's reply was that if I had consulted the Sangh in this regard, he would not have agreed."

Sitapati says, "Even the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, running shoulder to shoulder with the BJP in the Ayodhya movement, did not have a wind of it. Council leader Ashok Singhal also admitted that I did not know that the name of Advani Vajpayee Is about to announce. "

Advani wrote in his autobiography 'My Country My Life', "What I did was not a sacrifice. It was the result of a logical assessment of what is right and what is in the interest of the party and the country."

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I asked Vinay Sitapati what the reason behind Advani's decision would have been. His reply was that Vajpayee was more acceptable to BJP's allies than Advani.

He says, "At that time Advani could have got more votes for BJP but he does not get allies to form the government. At that time Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi told me that Advani is a very clever leader, if BJP Had it made Advani its prime ministerial candidate, we would not have supported the BJP. Vajpayee did not have the capacity to convince the rebels inside the other party.

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When Vajpayee won the election from Balrampur in the Lok Sabha in 1957, his age was 33 years. As soon as he entered the Lok Sabha, he started influencing everyone with his speeches. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was also among his dead.

Famous journalist RV Pandit narrates an anecdote, "When Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev came to India, Nehru introduced Vajpayee and said that he could become the Prime Minister of India in the future. Khrushchev then smiled and quipped." Then what are they doing here? In our country, we would have sent them to Gulag (a kind of jail where opponents of the government were kept). "

At the same time Lal Krishna Advani was brought to Delhi to help the newly elected Vajpayee.

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Advani first stopped at 30 Rajendra Prasad Road, Vajpayee's official residence. Advani was fond of watching films from the beginning. Sometimes Vajpayee also went to see the film with him.

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At the same time, KR Malkani, the editor of Organizer, gave Advani the responsibility of writing a film review for his newspaper. Advani started writing film reviews in the organizer named 'Netra'.