But the deputy prime minister's lawyer denied the allegation saying the accused seem to have been 'tutored'.
The meeting will take place at Hotel Renaissance, where the BJP is holding its three-day national executive.
The deputy prime minister said National Democratic Front convener George Fernandes is consulting partners on the issue.
We want to know from the prime minister's office why the case was hushed up particularly when the FIR was registered against Rao at the instance of PMO. We will raise the issue in the parliament," he said.
Buoyed by the high turnout in the Punjab Assembly elections, Advani asked for a similar phenomenon in Congress-ruled Uttarakhand where elections are scheduled for February 21.
The Special Court trying the Ayodhya demolition case reserved its orders on the framing of charges till September 12 next.
The deputy prime minister is expected to visit the sites of the blasts and also the injured people in hospitals.
The deputy prime minister said the Centre was willing to hold talks with 'any group, which will lay down arms and shun the path of violence'.
The conference aims at chalking out strategies for internal security of the states and police reforms.
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said Nagappa's body was recovered about 30km within the Karnataka border.
Lavishing praise on senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Kishenchand Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said veteran leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee had made no mistake by selecting the Advani as the party's prime ministerial candidate.
Hitting back at Lal Kishenchand Advani for levelling charges of incompetence against him, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party leader to do some "introspection" over his role when Gujarat was burning and during the Kandahar hijack crisis.
"Pranab Mukherjee met me this morning and said the government was in no position to accept a JPC probe," Advani said at a press conference in Parliament House on Wednesday.
While the IQ of some leaders were very high, their EQ (emotional quotient) was very low and the difficulties arose because of them, he said.
The Outstanding Parliamentary Awards for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 have been given Arjun Singh Jaswant Singh and Manmohan Singh respectively.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said he was betrayed by the BJP-RSS leadership.
Referring to the Jinnah controversy, Khurana said he had requested former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to call a meeting of RSS chief K S Sudarshan and Advani for a "heart-to-heart talk" so as to defuse tension.
He, however, cautioned that "responsible and important members of any family, including ours, have to be more careful when they speak to the media so that they don't have to make clarifications every now and then."
Advani will be joined by senior Janata Dal-United leaders George Fernandes, Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav.
The prime minister is Vikas Purush, while his deputy is Lauh Purush, party chief Venkaiah Naidu said.
The BJP leader said there was a need to 'rededicate' to the ideals of the party.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said it was not opposed to a nuclear agreement with the US, but wanted the present deal to be redrafted so that there was no restriction on India carrying out atomic tests in future. "We do not basically oppose the nuclear agreement," senior party leader Lal Kishenchand Advani said at an Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India function in Delhi.
The two discussed the possibility of the Nationalist Congress Party joining the National Democratic Alliance.
With an eye on the imminent assembly poll in the national capital, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government on Monday introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha granting statehood to Delhi.
'Terrorism is evil. There can be no ifs and buts,' the deputy prime minister said while rejecting Pakistan's root cause theory.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday took a dig at the BJP's anointment of L K Advani as its next prime ministerial candidate, saying it was done because the party feared "danger" from Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The chief minister apprised Advani of the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh.
The former US secretary of state, who is here to attend the two-day conference on 'Peace dividend: Progress for India and South Asia', said she has had an "abiding interest" in Kashmir for her entire life.
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