Raipur: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today (April 16, 2004) said if voted back to power, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would enact a law to bar persons of foreign origin from occupying top Constitutional posts.

"If we will get a majority, we will formulate a law on the foreign origin issue," Vajpayee told reporters at Mana airport before leaving for Ahmedabad.

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Asked if foreign origin has any relevance when development is being projected as the main issue in the elections, he said who should become the Prime Minister or the President is also an important question.

Asked whether legal luminary Ram Jethmalani has reciprocated his call to withdraw from contest against him, Vajpayee just laughed off the question.

He said he felt sorry that the son of Jethmalani is not well for which he had to leave for London.