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| Terror scare puts off Advani’s Jammu rallies | | Fresh schedule after March 20 | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 5
The newly emerged Prime Ministerial candidate of the BJP, LK Advani had to call off his rallies in many states including Jammu and Kashmir following terror threat to his life.
BJP today announced postponement of most of L K Advani's rallies following advice from the Government to scale down his public appearance in the wake of credible intelligence inputs about a possible terror attack on him.
The rallies over the next one month as part of Advani's 'Sankalp Yatra' starting tomorrow in Jabalpur to highlight the UPA Government's failures have been postponed and will now be rescheduled after March 20. Besides Jammu and Kashmir, Advani had to address a series of rallies in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Haryana as part of his Sankalp Yatra to boost the party's poll preparedness.
In the local unit of BJP, there was huge excitement about the proposed rallies of Advani in Jammu region. Though his exact Jammu schedule was yet to finalized but he had address a rally each at Jammu, Kathua and Udhampur. Now these rallies have been rescheduled for March 20 and onwards.
The postponement came after National Security Adviser M K Narayanan met Advani yesterday and told him about the threat of a suicide attack. He advised Advani to keep his appearances at public places like rallies to the minimum for about a month.
We felt at this point of time ignoring the advice of the NSA will not be an intelligent move. It is, therefore, better to postpone our programmes for the time being," senior leader Sushma Swaraj said.
Swaraj was talking to reporters after a core group meeting at Advani's residence which discussed the developments and decided to postpone the rallies.
Projected as the NDA's prime ministerial candidate, Advani was aiming to highlight the "failures" of the UPA government on various fronts, including internal security and price rise during the yatra.
Ironically, Advani's programme in Rampur, where terrorists attacked a CRPF camp last month, on February 10 was named 'suraksha sankalp rally' to highlight the rising terror incidents.
The Union Home Ministry had last week reviewed the security of Advani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after intelligence inputs suggested that Pakistan's ISI had tasked global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim with a mission to assassinate them. |
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