His defining moment was the Ram mandir movement. Which in scale was like the freedom movement. He dusted the intelligentsia mind from the cobwebs of pseudo securalism. But the realization that coalition politics have come to stay. Advani has moderated his stand so that he can be projected as Prime minister. And why not did he not set aside his political ambition and project Atal Bihari Vajpayee as BJP's Prime Ministerial Candidate.
