At that time Narendra Modi was closer to L. K. Advani than to Vajpayee and this is how he described Advani in a comment that I would publish in my article in 1999. ‘Hamare yudh ke rathi woh hee hain. Mahabharat mein Krishna ththe. Yahan Lal Krishna hain’ (Advani is the charioteer who is driving us out to battle. In the Mahabharata, it was Lord Krishna. The BJP has Lal Krishna).’
