While the BJP expressed satisfaction at the stand taken by the G-8 countries over Pakistan's violation of the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kargil sector, the Congress questioned the Government's claims of diplomatic victory and demanded that the Government share the information with the political parties on the basis of which it claimed diplomatic victory for India.

BJP general secretary K N Govindacharya told newspersons here that their stand left no ambiguity about the LoC. It had recognised that Pakistan-backed infiltrators had violated the LoC and tension in Kargil had grown mainly due to this violation. ``Let us see if Pakistan respects this world opinion or not,'' he added.

Referring to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's threat that if India did not stop action againstthe infiltrators, there could be many more Kargils in the region, the BJP leader said it was contrary to India's offer of friendship. ``The failing State (Pakistan) is working against the interests of its people.'' By launching the Dhaka-Calcutta bus service, India had proved once again that while India is capable of taking care of its borders, it wanted friendship with its neighbours.

Congress spokesman Ajit Jogi, on the other hand, said political parties should be taken into confidence on such vital and sensitive issue of national importance. The Congress, he said, was not taken into confidence on this issue.

Jogi said the joint communique had not taken the name of Pakistan for supporting the armed intrusions and had asked all sides to exercise restraint and resume dialogue and stop the conflict.

The BJP also asserted that a change in the demographic character affects India's security. Defending party president Kushabhau Thakre's statement on the issue, Govindacharya said that there had beencontinuous infiltration from across Bangladesh into the neighbouring North East region. The students' agitation in Assam had its roots in this, he pointed out.

Rejecting a suggestion that the party president's statement indicated that the Calcutta-Dhaka bus service might end up like the Kargil situation, Govindacharya pointed out that the Bangladesh Government might not have been directly involved in this migration. ``Friendship does not mean surrendering national sovereignty, integration and freedom,'' he explained.

Both the BJP and the Congress, however, hailed the capture of Tololing ridge by the Indian troops. The entire nation was proud of the defence forces, they said.