Bhartiya Janata Party patriarch Lal Krishna Advani has affirmed in his latest blog that he is not trying to repackage himself by undertaking the Jan Chetna Yatra.

In the blog written from confines of his Prithviraj Road residence here as he broke his Yatra for two days after two weeks for Diwali, the party veteran says he was pointedly asked by one of journalists who interviewed him on the "rath" during the journey: Is this yatra aimed at repackaging L.K. Advani.

His answer was: "Frankly, I do not quite understand why I would like to repackage myself". Also, I would wish to stress with all the emphasis at my command that this yatra has nothing to do with L.K. Advani, nor even with the BJP nor the next elections. It is concerned essentially with India."

Advani goes on to point out that "in the last couple of decades our country has earned a reputation that it had succeeded remarkably as a democracy, and that it was on way to becoming a major economic power in the twenty first century.

"The sense of confidence and self-esteem that had been building up in the people because of these two factors have been seriously undermined because of the happenings of this last year : numerous scams surfacing, several central ministers being removed and even jailed because of corruption, and the cash for votes scandal in which instead of the bribe-givers it was the whistle blowers who had exposed the scandal who have been put behind bars."

Advani affirms: "My yatra is to reinfuse confidence in the people that the failings of the U.P.A. should not be allowed to demoralise the country, and that we the people should concentrate on making the twenty first century India’s century in spite of all the failures of the U P A."

In his tailpiece, he talks of massive public meeting at Sarai Pali in Chhattisgarh, noting that it is the town where Prof. M.S. Golwalkar, popularly known as Shri Guruji, who succeeded RSS founder Dr Hedgewar had started his primary education and done Class I. Shri Guruji’s father was a teacher in the town.