"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.
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 meeting presided over by APHC chairman Moulvi Mohammad Abbas Ansari is being attended by all senior members, including executive members Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Abdul Gani Bhat and Bilal Gani Lone, Hurriyat sources said.
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.
The prime minister is Vikas Purush, while his deputy is Lauh Purush, party chief Venkaiah Naidu said.
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.
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 Outstanding Parliamentary Awards for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 have been given Arjun Singh Jaswant Singh and Manmohan Singh respectively.
PM, Advani pay tribute to Vallabhbhai Patel
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said he was betrayed by the BJP-RSS leadership.
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.
Advani will be joined by senior Janata Dal-United leaders George Fernandes, Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav.
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.
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.
All members of the Electoral College were expected to weigh the integrity and competence of the candidates, he said.
The saffron outfit accused the two of distancing the party from Hindutva ideology.
Bharatiya Janata Party chief M Venkaiah Naidu and Union Finance Minister Jaswant Singh were also present at the prime minister's Race Course Road residence when the discussion took place.
'Terrorism is evil. There can be no ifs and buts,' the deputy prime minister said while rejecting Pakistan's root cause theory.
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.
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