<p>"After BJP lost two Lok Sabha elections in a row, they perhaps wanted to change the team which led them to the failure," party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed told reporters.<br />Though he described it as an "internal matter of BJP and the RSS", the Congress leader said that the "failure of the team" may have led to the changes.<br /><br />Asked whether the Advani era was over in Indian politics, he retorted, "there was never any Advani era in politics".<br /><br />He said, "When Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in active politics, Advani was his shadow. When he came out of the shadow and wanted to do something of his own, he called M A Jinnah as secular".<br /><br />Ahmed said that the political downfall of Advani started the day he called Jinnah as secular.<br />"Had Jinnah been alive, he would have never claimed that he was secular," the spokesman said.</p>
<p>"After BJP lost two Lok Sabha elections in a row, they perhaps wanted to change the team which led them to the failure," party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed told reporters.<br />Though he described it as an "internal matter of BJP and the RSS", the Congress leader said that the "failure of the team" may have led to the changes.<br /><br />Asked whether the Advani era was over in Indian politics, he retorted, "there was never any Advani era in politics".<br /><br />He said, "When Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in active politics, Advani was his shadow. When he came out of the shadow and wanted to do something of his own, he called M A Jinnah as secular".<br /><br />Ahmed said that the political downfall of Advani started the day he called Jinnah as secular.<br />"Had Jinnah been alive, he would have never claimed that he was secular," the spokesman said.</p>
