New Delhi: Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani today (Feb 6, 2004) said wanted criminal Abu Salem, who is currently lodged in a jail in Lisbon, is expected to be extradited in a month or two.

"Abu Salem has been declared a terrorist by a Portuguese High Court and it is a matter of time and maybe about two months before he is extradited by that country," Advani said at the day-long Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Council which is being attended by party's top leadership including Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The High Court in Portugal has permitted the extradition of Salem and it has been a convention in that country that once a High Court permits this, that country's apex court invariably goes by this verdict, he said addressing the 15,000 party workers packed into the Ambedkar football stadium.