Doda terrorist attack on BJP protest rally

UPA lacks policy on
Kashmir & terrorism: Advaniji
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Examine ISI role : Rajnath Singh BJP National President Shri Rajnath Singh has strongly urged the Congress-led UPA government at the centre to use all of its diplomatic skills in the United Nations to put Pakistan’s dreaded intelligence outfit Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) under international scanner. After his visit to Doda and Jammu on May 15 where he met families of the victims of the May 13 grenade attack on BJP rally Shri Rajnath Singh said “It is known to everyone that the ISI has been relentlessly involved in terrorist attacks the world over, including India and brutal murder of an Indian engineer Suryanarayan in Afghanistan.” BJP National President asked the UPA government to make it clear that “there would be no peace talk, unless Islamabad stops cross border terrorism.” He held the Congress-led coalition government in the state directly responsible for the May 13 terrorist attack in Doda. He told media persons that “the state administration had intelligence inputs about the attack yet it did not make any security arrangements for the rally.” Chastising J&K Chief Minister for his irresponsible statement that the BJP itself is responsible for the attack, he declared. “BJP will not allow religious cleansing of the Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir. We see this attack as a challenge to Indian political system, to democracy and to the Indian nation.”

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Shri L. K. Advani expressed concern over the failure of the Congress-led UPA government to evolve any coherent policy on Kashmir and the menace of terrorism that has engulfed the Jammu region as well, especially Doda and Udhampur districts. He said this at Jammu after personally assessing the prevailing situation in Doda where the terrorists attacked the BJP protest rally resulting in gruesome killing of two BJP activists and injuries to over 35 others.
Advaniji visited the injured at Government Medical College Hospital, Jammu.

Later, addressing a press conference at Jammu Airport, Advaniji said that the NDA government had never compromised on terrorism and before the peace process was initiated we had made it clear to Pakistan President Musharraf during the Agra Summit that unless Pakistan publicly declares that it will abjure cross border terrorism there will be no dialogue”. He said it was only after Pakistan made a categorical commitment that it will not allow the use of its territory for abetting cross border terrorism against India that the peace process took off in 2004”.

Advaniji took the UPA government to task, saying, “it started its inning by abrogating the only anti-terrorist law in the country, POTA, enacted during the NDA rule”.

Expressing grave concern at the killing of Hindus and attack on the BJP rally at Doda Advaniji said, “still we hear from time to time from the government about demilitarization of Jammu and Kashmir”. He snubbed those in the Ghulam Nabi Azad-led coalition government who adopted on May 10 resolutions seeking repeal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act, self-rule for Jammu and Kashmir and troop reduction without realizing their dangerous ramifications.

Advaniji rebutted the accusation of the State Chief Minister that the BJP workers were responsible for the May 13 terrorist attack on the BJP rally and said “any one who is blaming them is himself justifying and legitimizing terrorism”. “ Kya atankvaad ke khilaaf awaj uthana apradh hai, I cannot understand such behaviour”. He said, “these attacks as part of a sinister design to rid the Jammu province of all Hindus”.

Advaniji also took the Congress and the Left parties in Kerala to task for unanimously passing a resolution in the assembly seeking release of the Coimbatore blast case prime accused, Madni as “outrageous”.

Earlier Advaniji attended the last rites of the slain BJP worker Shri Munshi Ram in Batote.