What LK Advani said on the issue of arms smuggling during the run-up for 1999 General Elections
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Lalit Shastri Before the General Elections to the Lok Sabha were announced in 1999, the Gujarat police had recovered a huge cache of arms, including AK-47 and AK-56 riffles, bullets, and hand grenades from a well near the residence of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in village Jhiranya near Mahidpur on the Ujjain-Nagda Road in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh. Launching the 1999 election campaign in Madhya Pradesh, where the Congress party was in power and Digvijay Singh was the Chief Minister, the then national President of the BJP, Kushabhau Thakre, had said at a press conference at the State BJP headquarters in Bhopal that Madhya Pradesh had become a haven for arms smuggling. He had even stated categorically that arms were being supplied to the terrorists in Kashmir from this State. A couple of days after the BJP President had addressed media-persons in the State capital, the then Home Minister L K Advani had addressed another press conference at the VIP Rest House at Lalghati in Bhopal. As