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Crush terror with iron hand: Uma
INCIDENTS OF terror attacks in the country have assumed serious dimension. However, the Central government nor the states seemed to have taken up the problem seriously, said Uma Bharti, national president of the Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party, here today.
INCIDENTS OF terror attacks in the country have assumed serious dimension.
However, the Central government nor the states seemed to have taken up the problem seriously, said Uma Bharti, national president of the Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party, here today.
She was speaking at the inauguration of the first session of the two-day national executive meeting here today. Terming terrorism the product of the minorities, she wanted to know as to why members from the minority community alone were being nabbed for indulging in terrorism. The matter was serious and hence needed to be debated, she said.
Earlier, she garlanded the statue of great freedom fighter Chandra Shekhar Azad at the Alfred Park and also planted a sapling near the statue. She was welcomed here by the visually impaired children.
Expressing concern over the growing scourge of terrorism, she feared that it might divide the country. Having originated in Kashmir, terrorism reached Delhi and now it had spread its tentacles in every nook and corner of the country, she said and added that nobody knew where and when it would raise its ugly head.
Though there were only a handful of people behind terrorism, the Central government instead of dealing with them with an iron hand, was busy playing the politics of vote, she said.
Throwing a salvo at the Left parties, she said terrorism had grown wherever they had their government. Whether West Bengal, Kerala or Tripura, common man was struggling for his daily bread but terrorism was flourishing at these places.
Accusing the Congress of not fulfilling expectations of the common man, she said the party had till now failed to come up with any concrete evidence which could indicate Pak hands in the Mumbai blasts. She also observed two-minute silence in the memory of those killed in the Mumbai blasts.
Meanwhile, eastern states party in-charge Tapan Sikadar said at a press conference that two resolutions had been passed on the first day of the executive meeting of the party. The first was the demand for greater autonomy to para- military forces to crush terrorism and the second was reduction in increasing foreign interference in the Indian economy.
