On Tuesday, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram announced the Congress’ ‘‘comprehensive action plan’’ to tackle terrorism, and quoting from the booklet entitled ‘‘The Congress Party’s Pledge — Protecting India From Terror’’, said that ‘‘it is only the Indian National Congress that can deal with the scourge of terrorism squarely and decisively but without weakening the delicate strands that have, together, bound our society for centuries’’. He added that the Congress ‘‘is alive to the challenge’’ of terrorism and ‘‘is committed to provide a strong and decisive leadership to meet the challenge’’. The party has promised to set up a permanent crisis management group or ‘‘war room’’ with two main functions: to ‘‘provide war room-style operational oversight and control during terror threats or events, and function as a 24-hour watch-post/monitoring centre’’. The Congress’ anti-terror booklet enumerates five tenets that the party has formulated as part of its strategy to counter terror: capable and equipped human assets, actionable intelligence and cutting-edge analytics, empowered and coordinated security agencies, decisive response to threats and attacks, and speedy investigation and prosecution.
How one hopes that the Congress could do all that it has now promised after presiding over the anarchy let loose by jihadi terror attacks in the past five years, when the party has done nothing except making hollow claims and false promises and letting innocent people die at the altar of its pseudo-secular anti-terror concerns — just because votes of a ‘secularly’ consolidated constituency outweigh the cause of national security! This is precisely what the Congress seeks to achieve when it says that it is the ‘‘only’’ party that can ‘‘squarely and decisively’’ defeat terror designs, ‘‘but without weakening the delicate strands that have, together, bound our society for centuries’’. It has failed the Congress — for obvious reasons — that there cannot be any linkage between a sound and firm anti-terror framework and societal strands presumed to be ‘‘delicate’’ except for the political expedient of prioritizing those strands (read Muslim vote) just because the terror that the party has promised to counter squarely and decisively is perpetrated by jihadi outfits in the name of Islam and, therefore, the perpetrators are inconvenient names from the electoral point of view. How on earth can the strands of any civilized society be weakened by a really effective and decisive counter-terrorism grid? THE SENTINEL
How one hopes that the Congress could do all that it has now promised after presiding over the anarchy let loose by jihadi terror attacks in the past five years, when the party has done nothing except making hollow claims and false promises and letting innocent people die at the altar of its pseudo-secular anti-terror concerns — just because votes of a ‘secularly’ consolidated constituency outweigh the cause of national security! This is precisely what the Congress seeks to achieve when it says that it is the ‘‘only’’ party that can ‘‘squarely and decisively’’ defeat terror designs, ‘‘but without weakening the delicate strands that have, together, bound our society for centuries’’. It has failed the Congress — for obvious reasons — that there cannot be any linkage between a sound and firm anti-terror framework and societal strands presumed to be ‘‘delicate’’ except for the political expedient of prioritizing those strands (read Muslim vote) just because the terror that the party has promised to counter squarely and decisively is perpetrated by jihadi outfits in the name of Islam and, therefore, the perpetrators are inconvenient names from the electoral point of view. How on earth can the strands of any civilized society be weakened by a really effective and decisive counter-terrorism grid? THE SENTINEL
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