CHENNAI: “Just as the winds of change have swept across the United States, I have no doubt that India too will witness the `change' when the next parliamentary elections take place in a few months,” asserted L K Advani, leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader.

At a glittering function organised by his party for the launch of the Tamil edition of his autobiography My Country My Life (En Desam En Vazhkai) in the city on Wednesday, the veteran BJP leader, while referring to the just-concluded election that chose a Black Muslim American, Barak Obama, as the next President of the United States, drove home his point to indicate that the people of India too wanted a change that would get reflected in the coming Parliamentary elections.

“One of the principal reasons why Obama represents ‘change’ in America, and why his election has created so much excitement both in the US and the rest of the world is because he is the first African-American to go the White House. It has taken nearly 150 years after slavery was abolished for America to elect its President of African-Amrican descent,” he added.