Advani to meet Hurriyat for talks on March 27

"My next round of talks with the Hurriyat leaders will be in Delhi when I am there on March 27 for a day after completing the first leg of this Bharat Uday Yatra on March 26 in Amritsar," he told reporters before starting on the seventh day of his yatra which reaches Hyderabad this evening.

He said he was going to be in Delhi for a day on March 27 and so he has told the Home Ministry to make the arrangements for the talks with the Hurriyat leaders on that day.

Tap Here to Add The Daily Star As A Trusted Source

"I had assured the Hurriyat leaders that I would have the next round of talks with them before the end of this month," he said.

He said "India wanted an amicable solution to the problem."

Meanwhile, Advani raised the Ayodhya issue for the first time during his ongoing Bharat Uday Yatra, saying on Tuesday that he was confident a grand Ram temple would be built at the Lord's "very birth place" with the "cooperation and support of all".

Into the sixth day of his Yatra since setting out from Kanyakumari, he changed the course of his speech at a public meeting in Bagalkot, Karnataka and made reference to Ayodhya when a section of the gathering demanded construction of Ram temple.