Advani

LK Advani has suggested that the Prime Minister should be from Lok Sabha. P. Chidambaran, however suggested that it was an interesting suggestion and Somnath Chatterjee said that it is not practical.

LK Advani said that there should be an amendment in the constitution to make that possible. The other two commenters however rejected it on the basis of whether it was practical or not.

Advani is exhorting his cadres to work hard and win on BJP's own strengths instead of the Allies. In fact he says that Allies come when BJP is strong. They would not come on their own.

"No, we have to fight on our own strength. Allies don't come for nothing, alliances happen on the basis of our own strength... The stronger we get, the more allies we fetch,"

Condi Rice came to India but did not sign the deal. She cited the bureacratic delays in the US due to the current activity in the Congress for the $700 bn bailout package. She however said:

"The 123 Agreement is done," Rice declared at a joint press conference with Mukherjee, using the name taken from the numbered paragraph of U.S. law that covers civilian nuclear accords. "It is a matter of signing that agreement.

Seen as the face of hardline Hindutva, senior BJP leader and NDA prime minsterial candidate L K Advani on Monday said he was "very much a secular man" and his party stood for peaceful co-existence of all religious groups.

Kicking off the party's election campaign, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the party's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani on Tuesday blamed the Congress-led Central Government for "compromising the security of the country."

Advani said while addressing a rally in Jharkhand's second capital Dumka,"The Central Government is making a mockery of the security of the country just for vote bank politics."

"It was Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who tipped off the government about the terrorist hideouts in New Delhi," Advani said at a party rally.