A shooting star called Advani - Livemint

The general election marks an end to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani’s prime ministerial ambitions. His age and the political climate have proved to be insurmountable challenges for him.

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What went wrong? The outcome of a political career spanning at least 65 years cannot be reduced to a binary choice. But given the stakes involved and the effort behind gaining prime ministership, one can be excused for thinking in terms of right or wrong. In the end, it looked as if Advani was a powerless spectator as the BJP continued to decline. At one level, the party’s problem was existential: how to define and push conservatism in a political milieu dominated by a Leftist outlook. Is there an “Indian” way of conservative politics or could some ideas be picked off the shelf, say, from the West’s civilizational experience? The BJP, led by Advani, chose Hindutva —a controversial interpretation of a subcontinental religious experience.

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