Advani invokes ‘Ram’ for success in UP
Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Saturday invoked “Lord Rama” in latter’s land to ensure the success of his party in the forthcoming Assembly elections even as he launched a scathing attack on the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.
Addressing an election meeting at Faizabad, about 125 km from here, Advani, who had undertaken a “rathyatra” from Somnath in Gujarat to Ayodhya in the nineties, said that he always wanted a grand Ram Temple at Ayodhya.
“From the days of my Somnath to Ayodhya rathyatra, I have felt that I will not be satisfied in my political life until a grand Ram Temple is constructed at the place where the idols of Ram Lala have been kept,” Advani said.
He also took a potshot at the UPA regime and said that it was neck deep in corruption. “The ministers are going to jail,” the BJP leader, who earlier visited the makeshift Ram Temple at Ayodhya and paid obeisance there, said. The BJP leader avoided the media.
He said that it was the only government in the history of the country, that has come under regular criticism from the Supreme Court. “Not a day passes, when the Apex court does not slam the government in one or the other case,” he said.
“This government not only faces attack from the leaders of the opposition in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha but also from the Supreme Court,” Advani said. Earlier in the day, he also addressed an election meeting at Pathardewan in Deoria district from where the state BJP president Surya Pratap Singh is contesting.
