Rajpura, February 7
Mr Advani today said no compromise seemed to be in sight with Pakistan on the issue of terrorism.

Addressing a large public gathering in support of BJP candidate and Local Bodies Minister Balramji Das Tandon at Jhanda Ground here, Mr Advani said India had been successful in explaining its view point to the world and would not let up the pressure on its war against terrorism.

The Union Minister while appealing to the people to vote for the SAD-BJP combine in the coming Assembly elections, said maintaining the security of the country was of paramount importance and the NDA government was best equipped to do so. He said the Congress on other hand was not able to solve the Jammu and Kashmir issue despite the fact that it had a good opportunity to do so when as many as 93,000 Pakistani soldiers were made prisoners of war in the 1971 war with Pakistan.

Mr Advani said an excellent opportunity had been lost in 1971 to rein in Pakistan. He said realising the fact that it could not get the better of India through an open conflict, Pakistan had started a proxy war against the country which was best reflected through the happenings in Punjab earlier and now Jammu and Kashmir.

Explaining the need to re-elect the SAD-BJP combine in Punjab, he said the combine had been responsible for the overall development of the state. “See for yourself. If development has occurred in Rajpura, you can believe that the same must be true for the rest of the state also. He also stressed that re-election of the combine was important to maintain Hindu-Sikh amity which had been achieved after great sacrifices.

Earlier, Mr Balramji Das Tandon also appealed to the voters to maintain the feeling of Punjabiat ushered in by the SAD-BJP combine. He also claimed the Congress was trying to raise the bogey of corruption even though there had not been a single scandal during the Akali-BJP rule in contrast to allegations from their own partymen that seats had been sold by the Congress to prospective candidates.