Addressing an election meeting here, he said: "Nepal and Sri Lanka were influenced by Indian foreign policy before but now they are out of the country´s foreign policy ambit. [break]
"Our neighbours are the victims of wrong policies of the UPA government," the BJP prime ministerial candidate claimed.
The situation in Sri Lanka was "very disgusting and disturbing" and the people of Tamil Nadu were anguished, he said. "Why should the Tamils in Sri Lanka suffer like this?"
On the current political crisis in Nepal following the standoff over the issue of sacking of the army chief, Advani said the UPA government "outsourced" handling of Nepal affairs to Communists, who saw a Maoist government in place, but now "anarchy" was prevailing there.
"You may have heard about the word outsourcing. This is the problem (about Nepal). Congress had outsourced the issue to the Left, and told them to handle it. It is because of this handling of the Nepal problem that Maoists´ hand was on top in the country. There is chaos and anarchy there.
"All this is due to the wrong foreign policy of the UPA Government," he charged.
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