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BJP never compromised on national security: Advani

Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL: The two-day training programme for State Ministers and district presidents of the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party concluded at Mandu near Indore on Sunday with the party president, L.K. Advani, lashing out at the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre saying that it should be "ashamed of the rapidly deteriorating internal security scenario." Mr. Advani said the BJP had never compromised on the national security front.

The previous BJP-led NDA Government had stunned the whole world by giving a crushing blow to terrorism and forcing Pakistan to stop supporting those engaged in cross-border terrorism, he said adding that the BJP-led NDA Government went for Pokhran-II and created history by making India a nuclear power.

Lack of courage

There was some initiative in this direction in the "70s but successive Governments buckled under the pressure of the capitalist powers and never had the courage or strength to go for a nuclear explosion, he asserted.

The BJP-led NDA Government had put the country on the fast track of development and when it was in power there was an 8 per cent increase in GDP. Mr. Advani praised the role continuously being played by party workers. The BJP was known for its committed party workers and went on to emphasise that the party had been able to march ahead due to its "high ideology".

Enemies of democracy

He said that those who swear by democracy were the biggest enemies of democracy. He gave the example of the post-emergency movement led by Jai Prakash Narayan and said that those belonging to the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) and the then Jan Sangh were in the forefront and had sacrificed a lot to restore democracy. Mr. Advani had a special word of praise for the BJP organisation in Madhya Pradesh and said that the party was in power in the State due to the hopes and aspirations of the people.

He reiterated every party worker's commitment to the ideology followed by the stalwarts of the erstwhile Jan Sangh, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Deendayal Upadhyaya.

Earlier on Sunday, the training sessions were addressed by the state party president, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, national general secretary of the party, Sanjay Joshi, and the former state party president, Kailash Joshi.

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