Advani would also attend today's meeting, the sources said.\n
Advani arrived in the metropolis on Monday to attend some private functions.
Inaugurating a National Seminar on 'War on Terrorism', Advani said several functionaries, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, had spoken on the need for a 'strong anti-terror law' and they should support the passage in the 15th Lok Sabha, he said, adding that it was time to fight terror treating it as an issue that deserved broad national consensus.
The deputy prime minister will deliver the concluding remarks of the session.
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 visited various forward posts and monitored the progress of the border fencing work in the Rajouri-Poonch sector.
The Tibetan spiritual leader had asked Hindus and Muslims to adopt 'a mature, farsighted and open-minded' approach to resolve the temple-mosque dispute.
Making official what was behind the scenes so far, a senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader on Sunday said Bharatiya Janata Party president Lal Kishenchand Advani had been conveyed the Surat conclave feeling that he should make way for someone els
Sangrur Senior Superintendent of Police G S Dhillon said the SAD (A) leader was arrested under sections 107/151 (apprehension of breach of peace) of the Indian Penal Code.
In a new twist to the phone tapping controversy, Bharatiya Janata Party Monday alleged that the telephones of many of its senior leaders, including Leader of Opposition Lal Kishenchand Advani were tapped during the Volcker controversy.
Five kar sewaks have alleged that they pulled down the disputed structure at Ayodhya at Advani's instigation.
'It is important for India that the world also recognises ISI as an organisation that promotes terrorism. If this does not happen the problem will remain,' he said.
We need to enforce compliance by states known to be sponsoring, sheltering, funding, arming and training terrorists, he said
Unless the terrorist camps are dismantled there will be no talks it is pointless and purposeless, he said.
Invited to deliver a keynote address by former president A P J Abdul Kalam on the occasion of the release of Lal Kishenchand Advani's book My Country My Life at Srifort Auditorium in New Delhi on Wednesday evening, former external affairs minister in the Atal Bihar Vajpayee government Jaswant Singh said that his concept of handling the Ayodhya issue was definitely not the same as that of Advani's.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Leader of Opposition Lal Kishenchand Advani on Thursday backed Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati's call for reservation for poor among the upper castes.
Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee also agreed that a ruling party remaining continuously in election mood was a 'serious handicap' to good governance.
Charges framed against Advani, 7 more in Ayodhya demolition
The BJP sources said Advani was extremely upset with the leakage of the letter as it poured cold water on his recent attempts to patch up with the RSS.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Lal Kishenchand Advani on Wednesday made it clear that the concept of 'Akhand Bharat' (undivided\nIndia) was no more relevant.
The meeting was attended also by Modi baiters Keshubhai Patel, Somabhai Patel, Kanshiram Rana among others.
The deputy prime minister made it clear that there would be no compromise on the country's "unity and integrity."
The move was part of the BJP's 'satyagraha' to demand withdrawal of all cases against Uma Bharti.
The deputy prime minister asked the Police Commissioner R S Gupta to bring the guilty to book.
Gujarat CM Narendra Modi also panned the govt for repealing POTA.
'Hindi has an important role to play in the country's unity, self respect and confidence to meet the future,' the deputy prime minister said at a function on Hindi Diwas.
Rajnath Singh, who was selected the new president, would assume office on Monday.
Khandelwal also said the Advani's controversial Pakistan visit should be discussed.
"I have expressed my regrets for my conduct [in the November 10 meeting] and for hurting Advani. I have left the decision [on revocation of suspension] to Advani," Bharti said.
Dr Singh's position in UPA pitiable: Advani
The two chief ministers who are in Delhi to attend the Conference of Chief Ministers on Internal Security and Law and\nOrder also discussed various other issues at the meeting that lasted over 30 minutes, party sources said.
Nearly 100,000 devotees, from India and 191 countries, have gathered in Kochi for the four-day event.
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