New Delhi, May 18: It's not just the flood of encouraging SMSs that may provide some consolation to the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and his party colleagues in hour of defeat but also a set of books that were presented to him on Monday. A christian catholic Father Bento on Monday handed over a book authored by Robert H Sculler, Success is Never Ending, Failure is Never Final to Mr Advani.
Interestingly, Father Bento had presented a book titled Tough Times Never Last, Tough Men Do by the same author when Mr Advani had been implicating in Hawala charges, affecting his personal integrity. Even as he is busy holding a series of strategy meetings of his party and the NDA, Mr Advani appeared relaxed and seems to have fast adapted to the changed political scenario. His composure is in contrast with some of his party's colleagues who are yet to reconcile with the party "unexpected defeat" at the hustings.
His daily engagement list is full of meetings with senior party colleagues and people from various walks of life. He is getting the feedback as to what went wrong for the party and formulate a strategy to balance between the parliamentary democratic traditions with the outrage against among a large number of BJP sympathisers against the near certainty of Ms Sonia Gandhi becoming the Prime Minister.