Advani reflects on BJP win

FE Team | Published: May 17, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Stating that the BJP won the election on the issues of corruption, bad governance and dynastic rule, BJP veteran LK Advani Friday said the role of Narendra Modi and the RSS in the party's victory had "to be assessed", reports bdnews24.com.
"Bad governance, corruption and dynastic rules (of Congress) were the three main reasons why BJP won this election. We have won even where we never won before," Advani said Friday.
"How much role (Narendra) Modi's leadership has to play in it, how much contribution did the RSS make, has to be assessed," said the veteran leader who is one of the founder members of the party.
Advani was BJP's prime ministerial candidate in 2009 when it lost to the Congress-led UPA for a second time. However for the 2014 Lok Sabha poll, the party made Modi its prime ministerial candidate.
Sources close to the senior leader, however, said that Advani congratulated the Gujarat chief minister on the phone for the party's unprecedented victory.
Meanwhile, the outgoing Congress-led UPA government will leave behind a 'note' on foreign policy issues for the incoming BJP-led NDA government-with a request to carry forward the improving relations with China and Bangladesh.
A top official of the outgoing Manmohan Singh government told the news agency that the 'handover note' would be left behind by the current National Security Advisor(NSA) Shiv Shankar Menon for his inevitable successor.
Menon will resign once Manmohan Singh formally resigns as Prime Minister after the President invites Narendra Modi to form the next government.
The top official, who did not want to be named, said the 'hand-over' note that Menon would leave behind for his successor would focus on two countries-China and Bangladesh.
Menon was the architect of restoring relations with China after it nosedived last summer over Chinese incursions across the Line of Actual Control.
He intervened decisively to take forward Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid's Beijing visit in May 2013, which was followed by Chinese premier Li Keqiang's visit to Delhi the same month.
In October 2013, Manmohan Singh visited Beijing and the two nations signed a border defence cooperation agreement to curb tensions on the Himalayan border.
The official said Menon would seek to impress on the need to carry forward the growing relations with China.