"Safety, security and integrity of the nation tops BJP's agenda," he said addressing a meeting of his party workers. "Terrorism and naxalism are two major challenges before the country and the Congress-led UPA government has done little to check these. We are irrevocably committed to crushing these movements through positive action," he said.

Referring to the Kandahar hijack incident in which some terrorists were released in exchange of passengers' lives, Singh said the passengers were not "relatives of Atal Behari Vajpayee, L K Advani or Rajnath Singh....they were all Indians representing various faiths and it was a humanitarian decision."

The BJP chief apparently had in mind the release of militants to secure the release of the then Union Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed's abducted daughter Rubaiah in 1989-90.