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Centre casual towards security: BJP

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JULY 28. The Bharatiya Janata Party today slammed the United Progressive Alliance Government for what it called was a "casual approach'' towards matters of national security.

"The sense of drift that epitomises governance in the UPA era is most profound with regard to issues pertaining to national security,'' the BJP additional spokesperson and MP, Madhvendra Singh, said here.

He said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir was contrary to the claim of the Government that the violent incidents in the border State were declining.

Violence on the rise

Mr. Singh said the "casual'' attitude of the Government had resulted in an increase in the level of violence and the claims about the situation in the State by the Minister of State for Home, Sri Prakash Jaiswal, were far-fetched.

Mr. Singh said the fact that militants targeted the Deputy Chief Minister, Mangat Ram Sharma, twice in a short span was a clear evidence of the deteriorating ground level situation in the State. It was the same Minister who had claimed that his statement giving out infiltration figures to the Parliament was based on "hearsay.''

He said the Minister of State for Home had demeaned the very institutions that he had sworn to uphold when he declared that the figures he gave on the floor of the House were based on "hearsay.'' He claimed that no forward was "noticeable'' in bringing peace to Jammu and Kashmir, compelling even the Hurriyat Conference to question the UPA Government's commitment vis-à-vis peace talks.

"Such a state of affairs emboldens Pakistan to put forth a timeframe for resolving its position over Jammu and Kashmir. This is an unprecedented event, to be taken more seriously than the UPA Government is clearly doing so far,'' Mr. Singh said in a statement.

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