Yashwant is 'right candidate' to be Jharkhand CM: Advani

BJP veteran L K Advani today met party colleague Yashwant Sinha in jail here and asked him to secure bail and lead the party in the Jharkhand Assembly elections later this year, describing him as the "right person" for the chief minister's post.
86-year-old Advani drove to the Hazaribagh Central Jail to meet Sinha, who was arrested two weeks back for ordering BJP workers to tie up an Electricity Board official in Hazaribagh.
Both Advani as also Sinha, who has held important portfolios as Finance and External Affairs Minister in the previous NDA regime, are seen as part of the "sidelined" old guard that also includes veterans like Murli Manohar Joshi and erstwhile senior leader Jaswant Singh.

Sinha did not run for election this time. His son, Jayant, contested and won this parliamentary seat.
Emerging after his meeting with Sinha, Advani said the Jharkhand leader "is the right person to be chief minister after the Assembly elections later this year".
"What I feel is that when he is getting support and respect from all BJP stalwarts, time has come Sinha should respect the feeling of BJP leaders, not only from Jharkhand, but also in the country and come out of jail," Advani told reporters after his two-hour visit to the prison.
Advani said Sinha should thereafter lead the ongoing agitation against power crisis and 'corruption' in the GM's office in the Hazaribagh area of the electricity board.

"Yashwant Sinha has launched a historic agitation in support of small villages ... I appreciate the stand taken by him for fulfilling the cause of poor villagers and he deserves all praise and support.