LK Advani played a key role in building India's ruling BJP from the ashes but eventually he could not withstand his protege Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cut-throat ambitions, fading slowly into the sidelines of Indian politics.
The then-Bhartiya Janata party president Lal Krishna Advani takes a tour of flood-affected area during his visit to Air India colony, in Bombay, India, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005.
Within a month of Modi taking charge as India’s prime minister in May 2014, Shah became party president. In August that year, he announced that Advani, former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and former BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi -- the three founding fathers of the party in 1980 -- would now be part of a newly formed advisory council of elders called the Margdarshak Mandal, effectively announcing their retirement from running the affairs of the party.
Analysts said the move marks both a generational and functional shift in the way the BJP is now run. While the Advani-Vajpayee era saw a BJP that was known for its leaders’ dignified conduct in public life, Advani is actually the original architect and engineer of the right-wing party’s polarising project that propelled its rise to an absolute majority in the general election of 2014, in which the BJP won 282 of the total 543 seats.
“Advani’s historic role in building the BJP into what it is today is undeniable. Of course the rath yatra [chariot march] led to many deaths and killings along the route,” said Balveer Arora, Professor Emeritus, JNU. Having been the deputy prime minister under Vajpayee, Advani got a shot at the top job in 2009. But the party finished with 116 seats under his leadership, while the Congress came back to power with a tally of 206.
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