Vajpayee alone will be PM: Advani

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">LUDHIANA: The Deputy Prime Minister, L K Advani during his brief stop over at Ludhiana on Thursday assured the country of the doubt, which many have nurtured for the past months. <br /><br />"Vajpayee ji alone will be the Prime Minister, even if the BJP wins with two-third majority by itself. I have been bestowed with far too many responsibilities, and would certainly not like to take on more," he finished.<br /><br />Bringing in a true spirit of communal harmony with slogans of <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Bole So-Nihal, Sat Siri Akal </span>initiated by him, Advani urged the masses to vote the SAD-BJP and bring forth a clean sweep in the state, and reinstate Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the third tenure in the center. <br /><br />He added that Vajpayee had brought a sea change in India''s profile in the past six years, and if he was nominated once again for a five-year''s term, he was likely to complete the exercise of overhauling the complete country. <br /><br />Advani, who sat perched in the left front seat of mini deluxe bus climbed to the top of the bus, where a high barricade was made and explained that his Rath Yatra, a purely election campaign yatra unlike other yatras taken by him in the past was a seventeen days affair in the first phase, which will finish on Friday at Amritsar. <br /><br />A second phase start after four days will cover from Mahatma Gandhi’s own land, Porbandar in the West to Orissa in the East. <br /><br />Conspicuously, the journey from South to North finishes at Amritsar, leaving out Jammu and Kashmir. All the same, Advani justifies that both Vajpayee, and he had already visited J&K, and BJP, president Venkateshwar Naidu had recently returned from a trip to the valley. <br /><br />He said he had already planned his trip, before the Election Commissioner announced the elections, and therefore he could merely stretch it and include Punjab in the first phase. <br /><br />Complimenting the yatra with a shibboleth for Punjab, Advani advocated "<span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Das mayee, Congress Gayee</span>� the BJP leader termed the state as the best in the country, and said it would prove the same in the forthcoming Parliamentary elections. <br /><br /><formid=367815></formid=367815></div> </div>