Assam Lok Sabha Election
Spl Correspondent
NEW DELHI, April 8 – Describing Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s report card on internal security as hollow, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today charged the Congress Party of going soft on ULFA, alleging links between some elements of the outfit with the Congress Party. Reacting to the report ‘Congress Party’s Pledge to Protect the Country from Terror’, the BJP on Wednesday dashed off seven questions to Chidambaram, asserting that the country is entitled to know the answers to the questions.
“Under the Congress-ruled UPA in the last five years, repeated signals have been given to terrorists and their patrons inside the country and outside that strong action against them is tradable for votes,” alleged BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Raking up the issue of illegal infiltration from Bangladesh and rise in killings by ULFA, Prasad said that under the NDA strong steps were taken against ULFA. Their leaders were on the run. In co-ordination with the Government of Bhutan, these camps were also destroyed, he claimed.
After the UPA has come to power in 2004, there has been practically no effective action against ULFA in Assam because it is widely believed that some elements in that group give political support to the Congress there,” charged the BJP spokesman.
“Chidambaram, why you are silent on repeated killing of innocent people in Assam in particular and when your statement acknowledged that attack could not be prevented in spite of information about the vulnerable period in between March 16 and April 7, the so-called raising day,” asked Ravi Shankar Prasad.
The BJP also sought to take the UPA Government to task on the issue of illegal infiltration from Bangladesh. It is well known that infiltration from Bangladesh constitutes a serious threat to national security.
The IMDT, a discriminatory Act brought by the Congress Government was quashed by the Supreme Court in July 2005, and while doing so declared that the State of Assam is facing ‘external aggression’ and internal disturbance on account of large scale illegal migration of Bangladeshi nationals.
“It directed that it is the duty of the Union to take all measures for protection of State of Assam as enjoined in Article 355 of the Constitution,” Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
Instead of following the judgement, the UPA Government purely for vote bank politics, issued orders, which brought back the IMDT from the back door, which again made any deportation of illegal immigrants difficult,” he alleged.
Again, when it was challenged in the Supreme Court in December 2006 the Supreme Court quashed the notifications passed strictures by commenting as follows: “Though, we would normally desist from commenting when the security of the nation is the issue as highlighted, we have to say that the bonafides of the action leaves something to be desired”, he said quoting the verdict.
In many terrorist attacks infiltrators have been found to be involved as facilitators. Why the Supreme Court judgement was sought to be undone? He asked.
“This is the deplorable record of the Congress in the Centre and also in Assam, where it is ruling for the last nearly eight years and playing worst political games in a very sensitive State,” he Ravi Shankar Prasad commented.
Later, replying to questions about NDA’s achievement in curtailing ULFA’s terror, the spokesman said that NDA had taken active measures diplomatically against ULFA. In this, connection he cited the Bhutan Operation.
Ravi Shankar Prasad also questioned the UPA Government’s track record on the fencing project, alleging that the Centre has stalled the Project. ASSAM TRIBUNE
Spl Correspondent
NEW DELHI, April 8 – Describing Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s report card on internal security as hollow, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today charged the Congress Party of going soft on ULFA, alleging links between some elements of the outfit with the Congress Party. Reacting to the report ‘Congress Party’s Pledge to Protect the Country from Terror’, the BJP on Wednesday dashed off seven questions to Chidambaram, asserting that the country is entitled to know the answers to the questions.
“Under the Congress-ruled UPA in the last five years, repeated signals have been given to terrorists and their patrons inside the country and outside that strong action against them is tradable for votes,” alleged BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Raking up the issue of illegal infiltration from Bangladesh and rise in killings by ULFA, Prasad said that under the NDA strong steps were taken against ULFA. Their leaders were on the run. In co-ordination with the Government of Bhutan, these camps were also destroyed, he claimed.
After the UPA has come to power in 2004, there has been practically no effective action against ULFA in Assam because it is widely believed that some elements in that group give political support to the Congress there,” charged the BJP spokesman.
“Chidambaram, why you are silent on repeated killing of innocent people in Assam in particular and when your statement acknowledged that attack could not be prevented in spite of information about the vulnerable period in between March 16 and April 7, the so-called raising day,” asked Ravi Shankar Prasad.
The BJP also sought to take the UPA Government to task on the issue of illegal infiltration from Bangladesh. It is well known that infiltration from Bangladesh constitutes a serious threat to national security.
The IMDT, a discriminatory Act brought by the Congress Government was quashed by the Supreme Court in July 2005, and while doing so declared that the State of Assam is facing ‘external aggression’ and internal disturbance on account of large scale illegal migration of Bangladeshi nationals.
“It directed that it is the duty of the Union to take all measures for protection of State of Assam as enjoined in Article 355 of the Constitution,” Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
Instead of following the judgement, the UPA Government purely for vote bank politics, issued orders, which brought back the IMDT from the back door, which again made any deportation of illegal immigrants difficult,” he alleged.
Again, when it was challenged in the Supreme Court in December 2006 the Supreme Court quashed the notifications passed strictures by commenting as follows: “Though, we would normally desist from commenting when the security of the nation is the issue as highlighted, we have to say that the bonafides of the action leaves something to be desired”, he said quoting the verdict.
In many terrorist attacks infiltrators have been found to be involved as facilitators. Why the Supreme Court judgement was sought to be undone? He asked.
“This is the deplorable record of the Congress in the Centre and also in Assam, where it is ruling for the last nearly eight years and playing worst political games in a very sensitive State,” he Ravi Shankar Prasad commented.
Later, replying to questions about NDA’s achievement in curtailing ULFA’s terror, the spokesman said that NDA had taken active measures diplomatically against ULFA. In this, connection he cited the Bhutan Operation.
Ravi Shankar Prasad also questioned the UPA Government’s track record on the fencing project, alleging that the Centre has stalled the Project. ASSAM TRIBUNE
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