Hanging of Afzal Guru in 100 days: Advani

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Nagpur: Questioning UPA government's handling of the issue, BJP's prime ministerial candid L K Advani assured that the NDA will recommend the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru within 100 days to the President, if voted to power.

"Now the UPA regime is coming to an end, will the Prime Minister tell the nation why his government chose not to hang Afzal Guru despite the clear verdict of the Supreme Court, upholding death sentence?" Advani said in his concluding remarks at the end of three-day BJP national council meeting.

"Here is our warning to the merchants of death and their sponsors," Advani said, adding "We shall follow a zero tolerance and zero-compromise approach to dealing with terrorism."

Posing questions to Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi on internal security, Advani demanded a high-level judicial probe into the Mumbai attacks to unearth what went wrong and recommend ways of preventing such incidents and asked why it had not been done.

Firing a salvo against former Union Minister Shivraj Patil, Advani said he was removed for his "incompetence" but asked "At whose behest was he retained in that crucial post for four-and-half years?"