A few days later he spoke again on Rahul—by now several BJP leaders had visited him in jail. And when Mahajan junior was released on bail he picked up the cue at his first press conference: "After my father's death Atalji is the father to me. The BJP is my family." L.K. Advani, meanwhile, kept entirely aloof and did not utter a word on Rahul.
Besides the utterances on l'affaire Mahajan there was other unusual activity on the Vajpayee front. Soon after the scandal broke the venerable 81-year-old...

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