Shastripuram (Agra), October 13
Union Home Minister L.K. Advani today declared that the NDA government would fight cross-border terrorism on its own and not spare any individual or organisation which aligns with forces inimical to the country.
“No need to worry about Jammu and Kashmir. Terrorism is our problem and we will resolve it with our own might,” Mr Advani said inaugurating the “Swarna Jayanti Rashtriya Mahadhiveshan” of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha here.
In this context, he said the freezing of accounts of the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant outfit responsible for the recent suicide attacks on Jammu and Kashmir Assembly by the USA was a big success for India in its effort to quell cross-border terrorism.
He, however, wanted to dispel the feeling among some people and opposition parties that the government was leaning towards the western world, especially the USA, to deal with cross-border terrorism over the past 12 years saying that “there should not be any such feeling among the people.”
Referring to the terrorist activities perpetrated by militant organisations like the Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, the Home Minister said, “let them apply all their might but they can’t face us.”
Without naming Pakistan, Mr Advani said, “The biggest threat is state-sponsored terrorism and that is why it is taking a longer time to crush the menace.”
However, he expressed happiness over the change of thinking among the world community over the ‘proxy war’ and state-sponsored terrorism after the terrorist attacks on the USA.
Mr Advani said Osama bin Laden’s outfit Al-Qaida and the Taliban could have been behind the September 11 terror attacks...USA knows better...but we have concrete evidence about
the involvement of Al-Qaida and other militant outfits having links with the innumerable terrorist attacks in India, especially Jammu and Kashmir. In a frontal attack against Pakistan, Mr Advani said the country which was not willing to accept that it indulged in cross-border terrorism just three months ago during the historic Agra summit was forced to condemn the suicide attacks in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly recently.
Mr Advani said whether it was the Chattisinghpura massacre or gunning down of Amarnath yatris, the common man had always been the target of militants and that the government would deal ruthlessly with terrorists with all its might.
Stating that on October 13 the NDA government completes two years in office, Mr Advani said when the party had formed a coalition government for the first time in March, 1998, there was instability because of the AIADMK. But when the NDA government was formed with the largest-ever alliance partners on October 13, 1999, there was no doubt about its stability.
“The government would complete its full five-year term without any problem,” he claimed in the presence of former BJP President Kushabhau Thakre, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP Uttar Pradesh unit President Kalraj Mishra and several others.
The two-day convention, one of the biggest-ever youth conventions of the party, assumes great significance because of the forthcoming UP Assembly poll early next year and the completion of 50 years of the BJP.
On the first day of the convention, a resolution on terrorism and a charter of demands were passed.
In the charter of demands the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha has demanded that the government should immediately prepare an effective strategy to create one crore additional employment opportunities, as promised by the NDA in the election manifesto. Towards this end, necessary changes should be made to the controversial portions in the reports submitted by the Planning Commission’s task force on employment headed by Dr Montek Singh
Ahluwalia.
