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BJP demands Patil’s resignation

Staff Reporter

“He has failed to stop acts of terror, done precious little to curb them”

Calls for a special Parliament session to discuss the issue
Arjun Singh flayed for his remark on security

Photos: V.V. Krishnan

In Delhi: Shoppers leaving the Ghaffar Market area

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party nominee for the post of Chief Minister, Vijay Kumar Malhotra, on Saturday demanded resignation of Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil after visiting the Mehrauli blast site and the injured at the Trauma Centre in the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here saying Mr. Patil had failed to stop repeated acts of terror and done precious little to curb them.

“Instead of taking action against terrorists, the UPA Government has been defending the perpetrators of terror,” charged Mr. Malhotra, calling for an immediate session of Parliament to discuss the issue of terrorism.

“It should go”

Prof. Malhotra, who is also Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, said the people need to be taken into confidence and the right signals should be sent out.

The BJP leader also criticised Union Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh for stating that security cannot be provided to every citizen of the country. “If the Government cannot provide security to the people, it should go,” he demanded.

Charging that the Congress-led Government at the Centre had been soft on terror, Prof. Malhotra said on coming to power it first abolished POTA due to which the morale of the terrorists went high and a situation had now reached where they appear to have become uncontrollable.

Photos: V.V. Krishnan

while a Delhi Police team checks out the parking lots in Connaught Place after the bomb blast at Mehrauli on Saturday.

Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan charged that the latest bomb blast that had come within a fortnight of the serial blasts of September 13 was a result of the vote bank politics of the Congress governments in Delhi and at the Centre.

“The Union Home Minister on the one hand announced that there are hundreds of terrorist centres in India, but on the other hand no action is being taken against them. What can be more shameful for any Government,” he asked, stating that the announcement about framing a stern law against terrorism was only to calm down public tempers.

Dr. Vardhan said the Centre should not go soft on terror and must bring in stern laws to deal with it. “In the absence of the right message, wrong signals would be sent out,” he said, adding that all the 280 block or mandal units of the BJP in Delhi would hold demonstrations on Sunday to protest against the failure of the Congress governments to curb terror.

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