Advani has a choice: He can either play statesman or spoiler

In June, Lal Krishna Advani got a wonderful chance to play elder statesman to the Bharatiya Janata Party — the party he built in the 1980s and 1990s. He flunked the test when he chose to play party pooper by staying away from the Goa meeting of the BJP national executive where Rajnath Singh anointed Narendra Modi as chief of the campaign committee. What should have been an invigorating moment for the BJP turned out to be an exercise in washing the party’s dirty linen in public...

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