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L.K.Advani reveals the real motive of "My Country, My Life"
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SPECIALCORRESPONDENT on 07 April, 2008 12:11:00
 
BJP's prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani's autobiographical book, My
Country, My Life has been the centre of all political parleys ever since its
release in March, and it seems that Advani himself does not want the
controversies surrounding the book to die down. And, this political plan of his
is forcing him to reveal his cards one by one- be it, presenting the book to
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh to officially creating the Kandahar controversy once again.
After having finished his Holi-book diplomacy and seen the controversy arisen
out of it fading away too soon, the former deputy prime minister today unveiled
his "original motive" of writing the autobiographical book- to gain maximum
possible advantage during forthcoming elections in states culminating in the Lok
Sabha polls in 2009.
Revealing the "hidden agenda" of his autobiography at the launch a website on
his book at the party headquarters in the national capital, the Leader of
Opposition in Lok Sabha said, "It is the time to think about future. The main
aim of this website is to tap the youth, to address the problems of youth and to
try to gain maximum advantage during the elections by reaching out to the youth
and popularising the ideology of the party."
Till now Advani or any BJP leader for that matter has been dissociating the
book from any future politics. One senior member of the party, who was a union
minister during NDA regime even said only a few days ago that "there is no
connection between the autobiographical book and party's attempt at projecting
Advani as the prime ministerial candidate" because "Advani's stature is too big
in Indian politics today."
Clearing the Air
But, with the launch of the website aiming at doing a massive propaganda in
favour of Advani, all the airs of confusion about the objective of the book and
timing of its release stand cleared. He minced no words in saying that this book
was aimed at the younger generation, "who can learn a lot about politics from
the book." He has thus laid to the rest all the suggestions that the book is a
confession of an aging politician or that he thought of taking retirement. And,
he has also answered the question about the timing of the release of the book.
However, it seems that the BJP, which led the NDA government, has forgotten
that the main cause of its defeat in 2004 elections was not the net savvy youth
but the farmers, who were overlooked when their agriculture was suffering.
Anyways the net surfing youth are not in great numbers in terms of votes in
India. But, BJP leaders including Advani himself and party president Rajnath
Singh are quite convinced that technology would fetch them enough votes to take
the party "Iron Man" to the coveted office in the South Block.
"There are mistakes in the book"
Though Advani today preferred not to talk about Kandahar issue, whose ghost is
troubling the party once again, he candidly confessed that there could be some
flaws in the book. He also gave reference to one such mistake where he has
mentioned veteran communist leader Satpal Dang as Late Satpal Dang. Apologising
for the mistake, Advani said, "When I got to know about the mistake, I
apologised by calling him up on telephone. But, there could be more mistakes in
the book."