He was addressing a gathering at the Arya Sammelan organised by the Himachal unit of Arya Pratinidhi Sabha here yesterday. He said that the prime minister, by taking such a bold step, had really boosted the spirit of nationalism and self respect of the country. Swami maintained that United States President Bill Clinton had no moral right to impose a ban on India as America itself had conducted a thousand nuclear tests. He lauded the opposition parties for supporting the nuclear policy of the Vajpayee government and said that now India had truly entered the 21st century.