NEW DELHI: Backroom efforts are on to ensure that the Lok Sabha speaks in one strong voice against terrorism when the issue is taken up for discussion at noon on Thursday.

At a meeting of party leaders convened by Speaker Somnath Chatterjee just before the House was convened on Wednesday, the general political mood was that through Parliament the nation should speak in one voice on terror. When some suggested a statement be made on the Mumbai and other terror attacks by the government, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi apparently immediately agreed. (Full Story)