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Sushma alleges conspiracy

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj said on Monday that the weekend blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad were a conspiracy to divert attention from the ‘cash-for-votes’ scandal.

“These are not off-the-cuff remarks. I mean what I say,” she said at a press conference here.

Asked if she was pointing at the Centre and alleging that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government had a role in the blasts, she said, “I have said what I wanted [to say], it is for you all to interpret the rest.”

The senior BJP leader also alleged that the blasts were an “attempt to win over the Muslim votes which got divided in the wake of the pro-American deal pursued by the government.”

She claimed that there was enough “circumstantial evidence” to support her charge. “Attacks in two BJP-ruled states in a span of two days and within four days of the UPA government winning the confidence vote have some meaning and what I am saying is proved by enough circumstantial evidence.”

She said the absence of an anti-terror law like the Prevention of Terrorism Act was the prime reason for the increased terrorist activities in the country. — PTI

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