New Delhi, March 25: Senior BJP leader L K Advani can never say no to book release functions for “release” has been his favourite word since his two-year incarceration in 1975.
Taking a humorous dig at himself the former Home Minister said since 1975, “I have been to many book release functions. I can never say no to people as in 1975-77, I was in jail and release was a favourite word then.
“So I released several books after that,” he quipped.
However, for poetry collections, he still prefers former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as prose not poetry was his (Advani’s) forte.
“I must have written a lot of words till now, but not poems. If Atalji would have been healthy I would have preferred that he does it,” Advani said at the release of a condensed English version of the Ramayana here today.
-Agencies