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Advani visits Somnath, skips Ahmedabad Wednesday, September 26, 2001

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
AHMEDABAD: Union home minister L K Advani on Tuesday paid a visit to the historical Somnath temple and performed 'puja' to commemorate his famous Somnath to Ayodhya 'Ram Rath Yatra' taken out on this day 11 years ago in 1990.

Advani has been regularly paying visit to Somnath every year on this day ever since he took out the yatra.

Tight security arrangements were made in view of his visit to this temple city. Later in the day, he flew back to Delhi in a special aircraft.

However, Advani did not visit Ahmedabad en route to Somnath this year despite BJP's debacle in the recently concluded by-elections to Sabarkantha and Sabarmati. The loss in Sabarmati is significant for Advani, as it falls in his Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency.

Several BJP leaders, including jails minister Jaspal Singh have criticised the BJP leadership for the election results and for failing to take corrective measures to arrest the downslide in the fortunes of the ruling BJP.

News Source : The Times of India [India's best Newspaper]

 

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