 The UPA, with the outside support of communist parties, formed the next government with Manmohan Singh as the prime minister.In December 2005, Vajpayee announced his retirement from active politics, declaring that he would not contest in the next general election.In a famous statement at the BJP's silver jubilee rally at Mumbai's Shivaji Park, Vajpayee announced that "Henceforth, Lal Krishna Advani and Pramod Mahajan will be the Ram-Lakshman [the two godly brothers much revered and worshipped by Hindus] of the BJP."