The oddity is that Mr Advani had always been seen as a Hindutva hardliner.
Mr Advani has always denied charges over his alleged involvement in the destruction of the mosque in 1992.
Both men will then be in their 80s, but Mr Advani, a hard-liner, is much the less decrepit.
Mr Advani's remarks in Pakistan seemed part of an effort to prevent a crash by softening the party's image.
Further, Advani's assertion that the plane was never stationary is only partially true.
India's home-affairs minister, L.K. Advani (a powerful hawk), described the attackers as fedayeen but pointed no immediate finger at Pakistan.
In any case, Advani was only making excuses for what is widely seen as a monumental blunder by his government.
It propelled the BJP, which until Mr Advani's campaign had been on the fringe of Indian politics, into a mainstream party.
Ranked No. 22 in Asiaweek's 1998 list of Asia's 50 most powerful people, Advani has never been one to hold his tongue.
It was faulty intelligence that led Advani to believe that they did.
The 83-year-old L.K. Advani, who led the party in the 2009 election, also lingers, ghostlike, hoping for another pop at being prime minister.
Mr Vajpayee, like Mr Advani, was found to have been aware of the impending demolition and to have done little to stop it.
Advani says applying data to games at this level has not been received with as much suspicion as other technologies, such as instant reply.
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The dropping of charges both saves Mr Advani from this predicament and boosts his presumed ambitions to succeed Atal Behari Vajpayee as India's prime minister.
BJP-led coalition government, and L. K. Advani, the deputy prime minister.
But Mr Advani's departure will not resolve the underlying tension.
But the high court in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh overturned the ruling following a petition filed by two Muslims who argued Mr Advani could not be exonerated while the trial of the other seven continued.
Advani's statements were contradicted by Civil Aviation Minister Sharad Yadav, who said that initially the hijackers were so inadequately armed - they had pistols and knives - that even the hostages "could have overpowered" them.
" It noted that Advani, in making his case, "glossed over" the fact that Lahore airport initially would not allow the hijacked plane to land and only did so after the pilot "nearly crashed it onto a road crowded with people.
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Among the best answers to this question was provided by a former client, Deepak Advani, Vice President, Predictive Analytics and the head of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) business, which is part of IBM, at a recent lunch.
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