After handing over his Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat to Amit Shah, BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani thanked his voters and supported in the constituency through a blog. Advani wrote in the blog that the party has the ideology addressing the issue of freedom of expression in the country, LK Advani said: "the essence of Indian democracy is [to] respect for diversity and freedom of expression. Right from its inception, the BJP has never regarded those who disagree with us politically as our 'enemies', but only as our adversaries."