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BJP seeks review of VIP security

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUPATI Oct. 3. In the aftermath of the landmine attack on the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, in the temple town of Tirupati, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sought a review of security cover being provided to VIPs.

Expressing shock at the assassination attempt on Mr. Naidu on the ghat road leading to Tirumala, an altogether unsuspected spot, the party's State president, N. Indrasena Reddy, felt that it was high time the Government took cognisance of the chinks in the security cover of VIPs and reviewed it. Turning his ire on the naxalites for killing political adversaries, Mr. Reddy said that it exposed their frustration over their failed ideology. He advised the naxals to notice at least now that something was terribly wrong with their ideology, which had gone awry time and again. "Those who boasted of coming to power in 10 years, could not do so even after three decades as the path picked up by them was not proper'', he observed.

Interestingly, Mr. Reddy maintained that the Government should still be ready to hold talks within the ambit of the Constitution, which ran contrary to the recent statement of the Home Minister, Devender Goud, that talks were irrelevant now after the attack on the Chief Minister himself.

On the Centre's initiative in tackling the burning issue that crossed State borders, Mr. Reddy recalled that Mr. Advani, as the then Home Minister, had convened a meeting of the affected states to facilitate sharing of intelligence information on various outfits and breakaway groups active in the various regions.

He also wanted the issue to be viewed as a social problem. In a veiled attack on the Congress party, he said that it was unfortunate that `some' parties were trying to derive political mileage out of the ghastly incident by making ill-timed statements on the Government's failure to tackle the naxal menace. He advised all the political parties to come on to a single platform to fight the groups indulging in political violence.

The Tirupati MP, N. Venkataswamy, and the BJYM State general secretary, G. Bhanuprakash Reddy, were among those present.

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