Opposition leader LK Advani has written a letter to former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam requesting him to build a national consensus on Terror and the need to effect strict anti-terror laws. 

“I was happy to read media reports about your concern over terrorism, which has assumed such serious dimensions that it has not only gravely imperiled India’s national security and national unity but also threatened the safety of the common man... I feel that a person of your eminence can help in elevating the discourse on terrorism to a level where it can be discussed as a national problem requiring broad national consensus unimpaired by narrow electoral considerations,” said NDA prime ministerial candidate L K Advani in a letter to the former President. 

In his recent interventions, Kalam has stressed for a “unified intelligence agency” and a “national mission to eradicate terrorism”. “I believe, time has come, apart from our multiple agencies forecasting and handling of the terrorist activities, we need to evolve an aggressive mission called National Campaign to Eradicate Terrorism (NCET), with mission oriented integrated management structure, duly passed as a Bill by Parliament,” he had said last week. Kalam also called for a law “to provide stringent punishments and faster justice to the perpetrators of the crime in a time bound manner” and “national citizen ID cards for all”.