NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted veteran BJP leader L K Advani on his 93rd birthday on Sunday and said he was a living inspiration to party workers and people of the country.
In a tweet in Hindi, Modi said Advani, deputy prime minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government, played a significant role in the country’s development and also took the party to the masses. He was a “living inspiration” to crores of BJP workers and also the country, the PM said, wishing him a long and healthy life.
Modi visited Advani to greet him along with top BJP leaders, including home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and party president J P Nadda.
Advani is the longest-serving BJP president and is credited with charting the path for his party to grow from the margins of national politics to become its leading player, and then come to power in the 1990s.