BJP leader L K Advani today admitted that people were "disappointed" with the party and appeared to be hitting out at party chief Nitin Gadkari as he
said the campaign against corruption had been hurt due to induction of an ousted BSP leader facing graft charges. He said the BJP had not risen to the occasion at a time when there was anger against the UPA government over various scams.

"If people are today angry with the UPA government, they are also disappointed with us.  The situation ...calls for introspection," the BJP veteran wrote in his blog, the first on organisational affairs after the party's National Executive where the differences between leaders was in focus. "... when these days media-persons attack the UPA government for its string of scams, but at the same time regret that the BJP led NDA is not rising to the occasion, I as a former pressman myself, feel they are reflecting public opinion correctly," he said. 

Observing that the mood within the party "these days is not upbeat", he said,  "The results in Uttar Pradesh (assembly polls), the manner in which the party welcomed BSP Ministers who were removed by Mayawati ji on charges of corruption, the partys handling of Jharkhand and Karnataka all these events have undermined the partys campaign against corruption."