Advani is BJP's prime ministerial candidate (the video is loading, may take long. Please bear with us...)

India's opposition Hindu nationalists on December 10, named senior leader Lal Krishna Advani as their prime ministerial candidate for polls due in 2009, are aiming to fill a vacuum at the top of the struggling party. The decision by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came on the eve of the first stage of voting in the communally polarized western state of Gujarat. The BJP has struggled for direction since its 2004 defeat and its second rung leaders failed to forge unity after Advani stepped down as party president in 2005.