New Delhi (PTI): BJP on Monday dubbed as "outlandish" and "unsolicited", Home Minister Shivraj Patil's statement that the saffron party created hurdles in government plans to amend laws to take direct action against naxalites.

The party hit back at Patil, saying it was the UPA government which had scrapped anti-terror law POTA, making it clear its "intent and design" to address the issues of terrorism and insurgency.

"Playing Centre-state blame game card does not absolve the Home Minister of his responsibility to address the growing menace of naxalism," party spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters here.

Describing the Home Minister's remarks as "outlandish" and "unsolicited", he said the "attempts of the UPA government to treat terrorism as a law and order issue coupled with policy of appeasement is being watched by the nation with disdain."

His comments came in response to Patil's statement that some BJP leaders were in favour of a proposal to amend the Constitution to enable the Centre to deploy forces in states to fight naxalites, while others were not.

"Which Constitutional amendment is he talking about,?" Rudy asked and asserted that the "country needs no clarification which political party and their allies are soft peddling on terrorism and naxalism".

On Patil's observation that naxalism is not the single biggest threat to the country, he said the statement "is evasive and admittance that there is an overall deterioration which includes terrorist infiltration as well."