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Opposition flays Maharashtra Government

Special Correspondent

MUMBAI: The ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government in Maharashtra has been accused of encouraging terrorism with its `policy of appeasement.'

At a public meeting organised by the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday at Borivali, one of the sites of the bomb blasts, senior Shiv Sena leader and former Chief Minister Manohar Joshi said 110 bomb blasts took place claiming close to a thousand lives, all during the Congress rule in Maharashtra.

BJP leader in the Assembly Gopinath Munde criticised the Government for repealing the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) and Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).

He said despite the worsening situation the government wanted to introduce reservation in jobs on the basis of religion. "We will not allow that to happen," he said.

Maharashtra BJP president Nitin Gadkari and Leader of Opposition (Shiv Sena) Ramdas Kadam spoke. All speakers linked the Mumbai bomb blasts to the anti-police riots in Bhiwandi in which two policemen were lynched.

The government hadhalted the construction of a police station following opposition from Muslims with a view to giving them one more chance to prove that the land belonged to them. Mr. Kadam said he would go there and start construction after two days and dared the Government to arrest him.

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