US pressured India to Cede land to Pak

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> We rebuffed US: Atal

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> S P Singh / Utpal Kumar/ Ghaziabad

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> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on

> Friday evening stated

> that after the Kargil war, the United States had

> pressurised India to give

> away some land to Pakistan before making peace

> moves, "but we stood firm and

> did not give in to the American pressure".

> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

> addresses an election

> meeting at Ghaziabad - Alwin Singh / Pioneer

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> The Prime Minister said he had extended the

> hand of friendship to

> Pakistan only when India was in a strong position

> after the successful

> elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Mr Vajpayee said

> this while addressing an

> impressive election meeting at the Ram Lila Ground

> in Ghaziabad.

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>

> That peace is existing today between India and

> Pakistan is a "victory

> of policy" and the two neighbours, in keeping with

> this peaceful

> relationship, should help each other in times of

> need to solve common

> problems like poverty and hunger, said Mr Vajpayee.

> "Even small children

> from there come to India for heart operations. We

> have to help each other in

> times of need, but there will be no compromise on

> Defence," Mr Vajpayee

> warned.

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> "Earlier, Pakistan was planning to buy wheat

> from Australia but we

> offered and they agreed and we exported wheat to

> Pakistan," he said. Mr

> Vajpayee also said during his tenure as the Prime

> Minister of India, the

> country's pride had increased manifold in the

> international fora.

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> "Many friendly countries had offered to

> support India's claim for a

> permanent seat in the UN Security Council. But we

> asked them to facilitate

> our entry gracefully through elections and not

> through lobbying," he said.

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>

> On the home front, the Prime Minister said

> things had indeed looked

> up. Speaking about the performance of previous

> Governments, Mr Vajpayee said

> they were struggling to feed the nation. But now,

> "we have spare wheat to

> feed other countries".

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>

> "After initiating work on the Golden

> Quadrilateral project to put in

> place a network of national highways, we have

> planned to connect the

> villages to the highways. We are now planning to

> link rivers to counter

> drought and irrigational problems," he said. "Aap ko

> taya karna hai ki aapko

> kya chahiye. Behtar bijli, sadak, paani aur hospital

> ya phir sirf kore wade

> (You have to decide whether you want better power,

> roads, water and

> hospitals or just empty promises)," he told the

> gathering.

>

>

> As he spoke in detail about his dream Golden

> Quadrilateral and

> river-linking projects, Mr Vajpayee jokingly said:

> "Hamara kaam jorne ka

> hai. Ab sirf dil jorna banki hai (To connect is our

> motto and now we have to

> connect hearts)."

>

>

> He lauded the way his Government handled the

> drought conditions in 12

> states. "As many states were suffering due to

> floods, I thought of a

> long-term remedy. And thus the project of river-

> linking came into being,"

> Mr Vajpayee said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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