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"In respect of depredations being caused by CPI (ML) and People’s War Group and MCC, mainly in the three districts of Paschim Medinipur, Bankura and Purulia, effective action is being taken."
 

 They have drawn a corridor from Nepal to Andhra Pradesh via West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand. They have drawn a corridor and, therefore, the political will has to be there. इसका राजनीतिक स्तर पर भी मुकाबला करना चाहिए।

With regard to the ISI activities, our Chief Minister has discussed several times with the hon. Deputy Prime Minister Shri L.K. Advani and apprised him of the latest position. There are eleven posts or points which are in Bhutan which have been mentioned, and probably the Government of India have been intimated also, wherefrom these training camps are being conducted and the ISI has got a definite hand behind it. That is the point. Even in Bangladesh there are many points from where these activities take place and this has been amply communicated in time to the Government of India.

 

 What an analogy you are giving to your party people! The Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said in Agra that the militants were involved in a freedom struggle in Kashmir, which you could not condemn on his face. You took time to do that. It is your perception whether President Musharraf is good or bad. He said that the terrorists were involved in a liberation struggle in Kashmir, which we all condemned.

Shri L.K. Advani is giving a logic to his party colleagues in the conclave, ‘How can I take big action? For a big action, people should be mentally prepared to receive body bags.’ What an analogy is he giving! His analogy is that the Americans had to abandon Vietnam because of sacrifice of life. The Vietnam War was a patriotic national struggle by the Vietnamese for liberation from the American jaws. Are you comparing that with our fight against cross-border terrorism? If this kind of an analogy is given by the Home Minister of this country to his party colleagues, I do not know how things would proceed. I think, Shri Advani had reacted emotionally; he did not react logically and he was not in his wisdom frame on that day. Maybe, he was too busy with other preoccupations.

Shri Advani reacts so much emotionally outside Parliament that he does not know how to translate it into action at his desk in the Home Ministry. On the 6th December, 1999, he said, ‘The Government would soon come out with a White Paper on Pakistan’s ISI-sponsored activities in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country and adopt a two-pronged strategy to effectively combat terrorism.’ I do not know of any such White Paper having come out.

Mr. Deputy Prime Minister, did you prepare a White Paper? Did you present it to Parliament? Did you discuss it with the parties which have supported you in your fight against cross-border terrorism? Whenever you visit a spot after a terrorist onslaught, you become a more emotional L.K. Advani than a constitutionally-appointed Home Minister of the country.

Hon. L.K.Advani went to Leone in France accompanied by the CBI Chief and a special officer, Shri Shyamal Datta, who is now the Governor of Nagaland. He went to Interpol himself for the trial of Dawood Ibrahim. The hon. Minister went personally to Leone. If I am wrong he can correct me, and I shall apologise to him. He pleaded that Dawood Ibrahim should be brought back. The Extradition Treaty was signed between Shri Ram Jethmalani, the then hon. Minister of Law and the UAE Government. I know about it. It happened in this 13th Lok Sabha. What happened to that? Only the hon. Minister prefers to maintain that he is fighting and fighting, but in reality, there are no results.