Mumbai: Senior BJP leader L K Advani today (June 23, 2004) addressed party executives and said the party should carry along with it the workers of 'Sangh Parivar' in its efforts to widen its base among the masses.

He also exhorted the party workers to regularly visit their constituencies and carry forward the development work.

Rejecting any anti-NDA (National Democratic Alliance) or pro-Congress wave, he said, even in Gujarat, where the BJP is said to have fared badly, "we won more seats than the Congress, although it was below our expectations".

He took strong exceptions to attempts at making the controversial Gujarat police encounter into a Hindu-Muslim issue.

"What is shocking is that certain pseudo-secular parties and organisations are using this incident in their anti-BJP campaign and also trying to make it into a Hindu-Muslim issue," he said and warned that BJP will launch a major nation-wide campaign on competitive pseudo-secularism.