Shri L.K. Advani at a meeting of NDA leaders and Chief Ministers New Delhi %u2013 22 January 2008 said "UPA government has betrayed the aam aadmi, is responsible for unprecedented price rise drilling big holes in the meager family budgets of millions of ordinary Indians, has been insensitive to the plight of crores of kisans, has caused the widest ever rich-poor divide in India%u2019s history, provided protection and patronage to corruption and criminalization, and utterly failed in its duty to counter terrorism and naxalism, is not a government that the people of India would want again. And they would certainly not want the prolongation of a government headed nominally by a Prime Minister who commands no political authority and whose writ does not run even over his own cabinet, allies and supporting parties. Internal contradictions and weak leadership have been coded into the DNA of the UPA government since its inception. All the above-mentioned factors are together prompting the people of India to conclude that (a) the nation%u2019s vital interests and people%u2019s wellbeing are not safe in the hands of the UPA; and (b) the NDA, which had provided a stable, cohesive and result-oriented government under the able leadership of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee between 1998-2004, is the only alternative.
