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Maoists must be excluded: Advani

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Says they are trying to set up a corridor

Kolkata: India should ensure that restoration of the democratic process in Nepal is not in any way influenced by the Maoists, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L. K. Advani said here on Sunday.

"This is for the sake of our own national interest," he said. "The Maoists were trying to set up a red corridor from Nepal to Andhra Pradesh — from Pashupati to Tirupathi — but this should not be encouraged. India should try to help bring about normality in that country with the setting up of a constitutional monarchy and democracy which should be regarded as the two pillars, but only at the exclusion of the Maoist influence there," he said.

"I am saying all this in response to what Sitaram Yechury [Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)] had said on the issue," he said, when it was pointed out that Mr. Yechury had on Saturday said that the Maoists in Nepal should not be excluded.

Concerned over activities

Mr. Advani expressed concern over the activities of the Maoist extremists in India. They were involving the tribals in the BJP-ruled States of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

"I have been telling the Governments in these States to educate the people against such influences."

On illegal migration of people into the country, Mr. Advani was all praise for West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee "who supported me in all the actions taken against illegal migration [from Bangladesh]," when he was the Union Home Minister.

"I have found in the course of my ratha yatra that these issues strike a chord in the people. Minority-ism is not only damaging the national interest but is hurting the minorities too," he said.

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