There is no law and order in Karnataka: Moily

Flaying the BJP government in Karnataka for its "failure" to check attack on churches, Union law minister M Veerappa Moily today alleged that there was no law and order in the state.

"There is a feeling among people in the country that there is no law and order in Karnataka," Moily told reporters here. Condemning last night's attack on a church in Kundapura, he said existing laws were strong enough to check such incidents and the government should implement them.

"The state's home minister should act like a home minister," he said, apparently taking a dig at home minister VS Acharya, who hails from Udupi district.

When his attention was drawn to the Pune bomb blast and asked if it was not a failure of the Centre, Moily said "it is not our failure. The Centre has strengthened the intelligence wing after the terror strike on Mumbai".

The focus of the Maharashtra and central governments is now directed towards consoling the victims of Pune bomb blast and restore normalcy there, he said in reply to a question.