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SV Train arriving at Gadra Road station
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SV and CU Crowd cheer as Vajpayes leaves train (3 shots)
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SCU Vajpayes (garlanded) addressing crowd in Gadra Road village (3 shots)
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SV PAN and CU Vajpayee leads procession to border and speaks to border guard (3 shots)
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CU Border sign 'India'
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CU Vajpayee talking to border guard
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CU Border sign 'Pakistan'
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LV Vajpayee leads supporters in procession through ruins of Gadra City
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SV and CU camels nearby
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GV Vajpayee and supporters in Gadra City ruins
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This film shows Vajpayee's arrival in Gadra Road Town and the mass march across the border on the day before his arrest.




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Background: Indian Hindu nationalist leader Atal Behari Vajpayes, who has since been arrested for illegally crossing the Indo-Pakistan border, first intensified his campaign against the recent Simla border agreement on Tuesday (July 25) -- when he led more than a thousand of his followers across the border into Pakistani territory held by India since the war last December
The incident took place at Gadra -- a remote point on the Indo-pakistan border on the frontier with pakistan's Sind Province, where India made its largest gains in the war over Bangladesh. At this point, Gadra Road Town stands on the Indian side of the border, and the ruined Gadra City lies on the Indian-controlled Pakistani side.

Vajpayee, who addressed a rally in Gadra Town before setting off to lead Tuesday's mass march to the border, argued with indian frontier officials for some time before going across. Once in Gadra City ruins, however, Indian authorities escorted him back across the border, held him in detention for some hours, and released him. On Wednesday (July 26), he was again arrested while riding a camel across the frontier at nearby Barmer.

Part of the recent agreement at Simla, where Indian Premier Mrs. Indira gandhi and Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto talked in summit for several days before reaching accord, was that both countries should withdraw from all areas they captured from one another in the war -- with the exception of Kashmir, where the December cease-fire line was to be observed. The result was that India was to withdraw its troops from some 5,000 square miles of territory (8,000 square kilometres) -- and Pakistan would surrender 50 square miles (80 square kilometres).

But the Hindu nationalist party Jan Sangh, under the leadership of Vajpayse, called the agreement 'a sell-out' and pledged to send volunteers to the captured territories and launch country-wide demonstrations and hunger strikes to rouse public opinion against the agreement.