Without a mass mobilization through emotive issues, no political party has been able to grow in India. However, the emotive agenda adopted during the growth of the party organization sets the potential limit to the growth of the party. Advani was the emotive mass mobilizer of the party while Vajpayee played the role of consensus builder. Advani realised that he had to moderate his image if he was to emerge as the prime-ministerial candidate. The contextual justification offered by him looks like an ex-post rationalization. It is difficult to buy that an astute politician like Advani would naively expect his comments on Jinnah in Pakistan visit going unnoticed in India. Such retrospective rationalization is inevitable in political memoirs. That's why Churchill's memoirs are considered as a source for the history of the second world war and not a balanced history of the era. Similarly, Advani's autobiography will be a valuable source for the historians dealing with India of late 1980s & 1990s.
