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The opposition was "not interested in a test of strength, but in only creating confusion and vitiating the atmosphere", party spokesman V K Malhotra quoted Vajpayee as saying at the Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentary meeting in New Delhi.
In his address, Union Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani said everyone should be satisfied at the speed with which the riots were controlled in Gujarat. Besides holding peaceful panchayat polls and higher secondary exams, about 6,000 Haj pilgrims had returned home safely, he said.
The meeting welcomed and endorsed the BJP National Executive's resolution on Gujarat, including the continuance of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Malhotra said.
It adopted a resolution demanding a public apology from Congress president Sonia Gandhi for saying that Vajpayee had lost his mental balance.
It also asked the Congress to take action against Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee President Ghulam Nabi Azad for demanding Vajpayee's arrest under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The party opposed any adjournment motion in Parliament on the Gujarat issue.
Party president Jana Krishnamurthy also attended the meeting.
PTI
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