Addressing reporters at an informal gathering to exchange Samvat new year pleasantries, Advani said it was the job of the local police to investigate and there was no need to involve CBI in such matters. ``It is the job of the police which they are doing and there is no need to ask CBI to investigate into that,'' he said.

He said a high level police team had visited him in New Delhi after the encounter killing ``but they only apprised me of the what had happened''.

He said the government was alive to the threat from across the border and that there was no move to reduce Border Security Force (BSF). He said more Army units were being sent to the trouble-torn border state of Jammu and Kashmir to deal with the terrorist activities there.

Commenting on media reports that the centre was contemplating replacing the Border Security Force (BSF), posted on the state's border with Pakistan, with the Army, Advani clarified that the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel would continue in their posts. However, he told reporters that the Centre was sending more army personnel to the border state.

About forthcoming Assembly elections in four states, Advani predicted his party would gain comfortable majority in all these states. He said he would be doing campaign rounds in those states in the next month and that he would once again visit Gujarat before November 30 when the winter session of parliament begins. He said he would be visiting Gulbarga in Karnataka on October 31 to unveil a statue of the late Sardar Patel there.

Later in the day, Advani attended Ellisbridge party workers meeting and a special meeting of the MLAs coming under his constituency. Greeting them on the occasion, Advani said the Bharatiya Janata Party had come a long way in the past ten years and there was immense rise in its popularity.

He told the party workers that the present government was performing its functions and using its powers as a tool to serve the nation. He told them that Pokharan blasts had enhanced the country's self-esteem and confidence many folds. In his address to workers, state unit president Rajendra Singh Rana told them to focus more and more on nationalism.