Get ready for mid-term polls: Advani to party workers

Jalandhar, Sep 16 (UNI) Former Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Lal Kishan Advani today exhorted the party workers to be ready for the mid-term elections which were around the corder Addressing the BJP workers during a party function organised here this evening to felicitate the newly elected SAD-BJP Mayors and Deputy Mayors of the four municipal corporations, Mr Advani said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led UPA government would not complete its full term and elections could be held anytime in the first half of the next year.

Mr Advani, who was projected as the future Prime Minister of the country during the function, while giving reasons for the mid-term elections, said that though the BJP was not against the nuclear deal with the US, his party was against that particular clause in the deal which states that US would impose sanctions, if India conducts a nuclear test.

On the Ram Setu issue, he said that the non-existence of Lord Ram in the first affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court by the government was against the wishes of the country. He said that the rift within the Congress had already become visible which would take its toll on the government.

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