New Delhi: Exactly a year after five heavily armed Pakistani terrorists stormed Parliament House, the government on December 13 said the complex was much safer now than what it was earlier.

A lot has been done. A committee has been set up which has gone through several exercises and steps have been taken to strengthen its security, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani told a private channel.

"It is much safer than what it was earlier... Entry even into the compound is not as easy as it was at that point of time (December 13, 2001)," Advani said.

He said Parilament House and the central hall would have witnessed a blood bath literally, a blood bath which would have undermined the whole political set up of India, when five Pakistani terrorists armed with AK-47 and hand grenades carried out the attack.

"Democracy would have been brutally mauled," he said praising the security forces, who thwarted the attack. It is because of the alertness of the watch and ward of the security men outside, belonging to Delhi Police or Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the terrorists could not succeed in their attempt, he said.

PTI