Date:22/02/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/02/22/stories/2004022202850700.htm

National

`Feel-good slogan will boomerang'

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, FEB. 21. The former Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, has said that the ``feel good'' slogan of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would boomerang given the ground realities in the country. The Bharatiya Janata Party was already having second thoughts on the efficacy of the slogan for the coming Lok Sabha elections, he said.

``The Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, himself has confessed that the `feel good' is not for all. After giving out the slogan he himself is now feeling jittery,'' Mr. Gehlot, now in-charge of the Congress affairs in Chattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh, told presspersons here.

``The Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself had asked the party members in the Lok Sabha to seek votes on the `feel good factor''' Mr.Gehlot said.