New Delhi: BJP veteran LK Advani while backing PM Narendra Modi’s surprise stopover in Lahore on Friday, said that the process of strengthening ties between India and Pakistan, which was started by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee must be carried forward.
After returning to India last evening, Mr Modi tweeted that he was touched by Sharif’s gesture on first receiving him at the Lahore airport and then travelling to the airport to see him off. After the return he went to former prime minister Vajpayee’s house.
Vajpayee, who turned 91 on Saturday had traveled to Lahore in a bus in 1999 and started a peace initiative.
“The initiative that Vajpayee ji had begun, taking that process forward the leaders of our regime today including Modi ji and others, they too should contribute firmly in making relations between India and Pakistan better,” Advani told journalists in Kutch, Gujarat.
“And, the terror outfits that have sprung up in the recent past, people should get relief from them…(There should be) friendship between the two nations,” the former Deputy Prime Minister said.
