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Writing in his latest blog, while on a two-day Diwali break from the "anti-corruption" yatra, he said his campaign was aimed at re-infusing among people the confidence they had lost in India's glory due to the "failings" of the United Progressive Alliance government.
"My yatra is to re-infuse confidence in the people that the failings of the UPA should not be allowed to demoralize the country, and that we the people should concentrate on making the twenty-first century India's century in spite of all the failures of the UPA," Advani said.
Blaming the Congress-led coalition for the recent scandals, he said that in the last couple of decades, India had earned a reputation as a remarkable democracy and a country on its way to becoming a major economic power in the 21st century.
Again hammering India's cause, which, he said, had been damaged due to UPA's corruption, he said, "The sense of confidence and self-esteem that had been building up in the people has been seriously undermined because of the happenings of this last year -- numerous scams surfacing, several central ministers being removed and even jailed because of corruption, and the cash-for-votes scandal in which instead of the bribe-givers, it was the whistle-blowers, who had exposed the scandal, who have been put behind bars."