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...leaders have long maintained that the destruction of the mosque had been a spontaneous act, but the new report calls the attack "meticulously planned" and carried out with the approval of senior members of the BJP, implicating L.K. Advani, who had been present at the site, and other top party leaders such Murli Manohar Joshi, and Kalyan Singh, then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. (See who's who among India's most influential people...
...completely untrue that it was a meticulously planned conspiracy," Advani told reporters after the contents of the report became public. "There was no plan, no conspiracy...
...facing its own branding challenge in selling young voters on an 81-year-old party leader, L.K. Advani, as its prime-ministerial candidate. In one now infamous image, Advani was photographed lifting dumbbells at a gym in Gandhinagar, his home constituency, as if to demonstrate his vigor. The party has set up a website and blog for Advani and is relying heavily on Internet and text-message advertising. "My young colleagues who have created this website told me that a political portal without a blog is like a letter without a signature," Advani wrote in his first post, noting that...
...army captain and founder of one of India's first budget airlines, is promising to bring corporate efficiency and military discipline to city government. Meera Sanyal, the head of ABN Amro in India, was motivated by the November terrorist attacks to run for office in south Mumbai. Even Advani, the BJP's prime-ministerial candidate, is facing an independent challenge, from Mallika Sarabhai, a dancer and prominent social activist...
...government that negotiated the handover of three Muslim extremists to end the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a decision that proved disastrous - one of the jihadis who was released was later sentenced to death in Pakistan for the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl. L.K. Advani, the BJP's prime-ministerial candidate, was India's Home Minister at the time but recently said he was unaware of the planned exchange. "There are only two possibilities," Gandhi said. "Either Vajpayee [who was Prime Minister] didn't trust him, or Advani is not telling the truth...