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How Advani’s Rath Yatra Rescued the BJP From Mandal

How Advani's Rath Yatra Rescued the BJP From Mandal

“Raam naam jaadu aisa, Ram naam man bhaye. Man ki Ayodhya tab tak sooni, poke tak Ram na aaye re’ – a melody from a mainstream Hindi film featuring Nutan was on the tape sent to Lal Krishna Advani by performing artist Manoj Kumar, only multi-day before he set out on his Rath Yatra. A 10,000-km-long adventure from Somnath in Gujarat to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh on a cooled Toyota transport turned-chariot, was the brainchild Pramod Mahajan, a rising star at the time among the positions of Bharatiya Janata PartyRead More