The Advani factor…
“लालकृष्ण आडवाणी भारतीय जनता पार्टी के सबसे वरिष्ठ नेताओं में से एक हैं। आडवाणी ने 1941 में 14 वर्ष की आयु में राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ (आरएसएस)से जुड़कर अपने राजनीतिक जीवन की शुरुआत की। वे कराची शाखा के एक प्रचारक (पूर्णकालिक कार्यकर्ता) बन गए और उन्होंने कई शाखाएं विकसित की। विभाजन के बाद, आडवाणी को राजस्थान में मत्स्य-अलवर के प्रचारक के रूप में भेजा गया, जिसमें जातीय हिंसा के बाद सांप्रदायिक हिंसा देखी गई थी। उन्होंने 1952 तक अलवर, भरतपुर, कोटा, बूंदी और झालावाड़ जिलों में काम किया।”
Read more at: https://hindi.oneindia.com/politicians/l-k-advani-33187.html
“Advani, who used to visit Somnath every year on September 25 — the day chosen for being the birth anniversary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay — stopped it after 2010, the year the Allahabad High Court gave its verdict on the disputed Ayodhya Ramjanmabhoomi site. “After this judgment, he felt, ‘My stand stands vindicated’. So the yearly ritual came to an end,” says a source close to Advani.” – Indian Express article
As one drives into Prabhas Patan town, the familiar ‘Jai Shri Krishna’ greeting takes a backseat to ‘Jai Somnath’. These were the two words, as anyone familiar with Somnath history will tell you, that then deputy prime minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel wrote in his telegram to the dewan of Junagadh State Shahnawaz Bhutto, father of Pakistan’s late prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, confirming the State’s accession to the Indian Union. – इंडियन एक्सप्रेस
In his book My Country My Life, Advani writes, “The choice of Somnath as the starting point of the yatra had a powerful symbolic value, made evident by repeated references to it as the target of Muslim tyranny against the Hindus. The intention was to contextualise Ayodhya in the historical lineage of Muslim aggression and then to seek legitimacy for Mandir movement by drawing a parallel. The parallel the Sangh Parivar drew was with the reconstruction of the Somnath temple.” इंडियन एक्सप्रेस
However, that’s not the only story of Somnath that counts for the Sangh Parivar. The temple’s reconstruction also pitted one of the Parivar’s mascots, Sardar Patel, against the Nehruvian brand of secularism it opposes. Patel announced the temple’s reconstruction soon after Independence. After Patel died, the reconstructed temple was inaugurated by President Rajendra Prasad, who had also clashed with Nehru over “Hindu issues”. इंडियन एक्सप्रेस
कौटुंबिक माहिती
पत्नी कमला अडवाणी – २०१६ मध्ये मृत्यू – मुले – प्रतिभा अडवाणी – टीव्ही प्रोड्यूसर – स्वयं इन्फोटेनमेंंट, जयंत अडवाणी – “My father’s Rath Yatra changed Indian politics”. बहीण – शीला अडवाणी
