Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday night cancelled his visit to Australia where he was to attend the Commonwealth summit. A spokesman of the Prime Minister`s Office that Vajpayee has asked external affairs minister Jaswant Singh to lead the Indian delegation at the summit beginning in Canberra on March two.
The cancellation came in the backdrop of tension building up in Ayodhya following VHP`s threat to go ahead with temple construction at the disputed site there and the attack on the train in Godhra, Gujarat, which killed 57 people, including several Ram sevaks returning from Ayodhya.
Bureau Report