Advani to contest from Gandhinagar

Setting at rest speculation on the Lok Sabha seat he would contest from, Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani said he would "once again contest from the Gujarat capital Gandhinagar".

Opening a "health mela" at the Madhavpura Assembly segment in the city, Advani said, "There has been much speculation and media reports regarding my parliamentary seat. When I was in the Kutch district recently people asked 'why do not you contest from here as your father belonged to this place?' the very next day there were media reports that I would be contesting from Kutch."

A few days later there were media reports that he would contest from the Amreli district in Saurashtra and then even Jaipur in Rajasthan cropped up in media reports as his choice of seat, Advani noted.

"But considering the amount of love and respect I have got from people of Gandhinagar I have decided to contest the upcoming polls from here itself," Advani said.

Giving an insight into how the phrase "feel-good factor", being used across the nation by the NDA, was coined, Advani said it was inspired by an advertisement of a garment company.

"I had seen an advertisement of Raymond suitings where people who touch the suit fabric ask the person wearing it how do you feel? . To which he replies 'I feel good.' The advertisement further says 'if it feels like heaven. It must be Raymonds," the Deputy Prime Minister said.

"We cannot compare the situation with heaven, but we can certainly use 'feel good' as a catch phrase to show the work done by the NDA under the leadership of AB Vajpayee in the last five years," he said.

"I can surely say if asked 'how does it feel?'. If it feels good, it must be India 2004," he added to a thundering applause.