As L K Advani's suraksha yatra trundles its way across the Gujarat landscape, few things remain constant. One of them is an SMS joke he keeps repeating everywhere.

But before he starts on the joke, Advani appeals to his "Muslim brothers to not expect reservations for yourself or your community." I want you to make your Sania Mirza your role model, he exhorts them and launches into his favourite target, former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav. "Did you know that through his election campaign he had an Osama bin Laden lookalike with him," he asks the crowds. "I request Indian Muslims to marvel at the bowling of Munaf Patel -- the fast bowler from Gujarat -- a boy from a small village who has impressed all of India. Look at him, emulate him, make him your role model, not Osama."

This narration creates a good impression among the crowds wherever he goes.

But all this is in the way of preface only, to the SMS joke. Not many know it, but 4-5 regions in Gujarat have the highest cell phone density, and SMS lingo is extremely popular here. So Advani moves on. "These days I am getting an SMS joke that says he wants Justice U C Bannerjee (who in his one-man commission report said the fire onboard the Sabarmati Express at Godhra in 2002 in which kar sevaks were killed, was an accident). Why does Osama want Bannerjee? Because after proving Godhra was an accident, Osama wants him to prove that 9/11 was a result of drunken pilots."

By the time he finishes this, the crowd is roaring with laughter.