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Lashkar responsible for
temple attack: Advani

Advani said that going by the signs - the arms used, the dry fruits in the possession of the terrorists - the attack appeared to be the handiwork of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-tayiba.

Describing the recent communal violence in Gujarat as an 'aberration', he hailed the people of the state and rest of the country for maintaining calm after the temple attack, thereby defeating the 'enemy's diabolical conspiracy' to cause a communal flare up.

"Evidence of who did it and who was behind it is slowly falling in place," Advani said, adding within three days of the attack, a breakthrough was achieved.

Inaugurating a seminar in Delhi, he lauded the role of security forces in rescuing people from the temple and killing the attackers.

Meanwhile, Gujarat Home Minister Gordhan Zhadapia told PTI in Ahmedabad that preliminary investigations indicated that the two ultras, who stormed the Swaminarayan temple, were attached to 'Kashmiri militant groups'.

In another development, Gujarat assembly Speaker Dhirubhai Shah has sought augmentation of security for legislators and the assembly building.

Official sources in Ahmedabad said that Shah convened a high-level meeting in Gandhinagar on Friday to discuss the issue. It was attended among others by Additional Home Secretary Ashok Narayan and senior civil and police officials.

A police team will soon be sent to Chandigarh, the administrative capital of Punjab and Haryana, to study the security system in the sprawling assembly complex there, Zhadapia said.

PTI

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