NEW DELHI: Whipping up the controversy
over land transfer to the Amranath Shrine Board as one of its key Hindutva
campaign planks for the coming Lok Sabha polls, Opposition BJP has called a
nationwide bandh on Thursday to protest against the Congress-led government's
"surrender to communal forces" in Jammu and Kashmir. It has demanded restoration
of the land to the shrine board.

With the entire Sangh Parivar coming
together in support of the issue to use it against ruling Congress — at
the Centre and in Srinagar — senior BJP leaders met on Tuesday and drew up
a resolution to spin it into a larger poll issue.