Saturday, July 9 2005 12:47 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Chennai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday (July 8, 2005) demanded that the Centre issue a 'white paper' on the Ram Janmabhoomi issue and cross-border terrorism.

"The Prime Minister should submit a white paper on the Ram Janmabhoomi and cross-border terrorism, especially after the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power. What has the government done so far to tackle the two issues," BJP national secretary Bandaru Dattatreya told reporters in Chennai.

He pointed out that when the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government was in power, progress had been made in resolving the Ayodhya tangle, with both Muslims and Hindus coming forward for talks.

"Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh should at least pick up the thread from where the NDA had left it", he said.

Dattatreya claimed that a recent Home Ministry report had stated that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence was supplying arms to Naxalites and that they were coming into India through the Nepal border.

The Intelligence agencies had provided information that some sensitive places in India were likely be attacked, as happened at Ayodhya. "Why has the government not taken any precaution?" he asked.

He said the bandh call given by his party following the Ayodhya attack had evoked a 'good response', even in places like Orissa.

Criticising the remarks of the Prime Minister and All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Sonia Gandhi for saying that the BJP was trying to politicise the Ayodhya attack, he said that during the NDA rule, it was Sonia Gandhi who demanded the resignation of then Home Minister L K Advani following the Parliament attack.

He said the Ayodhya attack; the latest political situation and price rise would be discussed in the party's three-day national executive in Chennai from July 21.