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MR. SPEAKER : Hon. Members, I have to inform the House that I have received a notice of Adjournment Motion from Shri L.K. Advani regarding “the failure of the Central Government to make adequate security arrangements to protect the lives of Indian citizens in the border areas as evident by the recent killings of 32 persons in Doda and Udhampur district on May 1, 2006 and killing of two persons by grenade attack on a political dharna in Doda on May 13, 2006”.

            Though the notice was received at 10.15 a.m., however, considering the seriousness of the incident, as a special case, and not to be treated as a precedent in future, I have given my consent to Shri L.K. Advani to move the motion.

… (Interruptions)

SHRI L.K. ADVANI (GANDHINAGAR): Sir, I seek leave of the House for moving the motion for adjournment regarding “The failure of the Central Government to make adequate security arrangements to protect the lives of Indian citizens in the border areas as evident by the recent killings of 32 persons in Doda and Udhampur districts on May 1, 2006 and killing of two persons by grenade attack on a political dharna in Doda on May 13, 2006”.

MR. SPEAKER : He has asked for leave of the House. Is the leave opposed?

SHRI L.K. ADVANI : I am referring to the Hindu community.

SHRI GURUDAS DASGUPTA : You are charging the Government that since Hindus have been killed, they are silent. Is it like that?

SHRI L.K. ADVANI  : I am not charging the Government. My feeling is, in this matter, it is not really the Government, but the climate that we have created over a period of time has been such that it makes everyone indifferent to this problem. But everyone is conscious and, therefore, it is that I always recall that in 1950, when the Indian Constitution was framed, it was the Constituent Assembly in which, while presenting the Minority Sub-Committee’s Report to the Constituent Assembly, it was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who said, “I look forward to the day when in India no one would talk of a minority and majority and there would be only one community in the whole country, the community of Indians.” Even after these 58 years, everyone thinks that unless you talk of minority, you are not doing justice to the community. . … (Interruptions)

SHRI BASU DEB ACHARIA : What are you doing?

SHRI L.K. ADVANI  : I am not talking of minority; I am not talking of majority.… (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER: Hon. Members, when your turn comes, you can speak. Mr. Advani, you can continue.

… (Interruptions[R2] ) MR. SPEAKER: He has not yielded. Only Advaniji’s statement will be recorded and nothing else.

(Interruptions) …* अध्यक्ष महोदय :  जब आपके बोलने का समय आएगा, तब आप बोलिएगा। अभी आप बैठिए।

…( व्यवधान)

SHRI L.K. ADVANI : I believe that my secularism is genuine. It makes me reject the concept of a theocratic state. … (Interruptions)