Mumbai blasts: BJP lashes at government for no progress in probe

Lashing out at the policy of ‘condolence for the dead and compensation for the injured’ regarding the bomb blasts, BJP national general secretary Venkaiah Naidu has criticised the government for not making any headway in the investigation of the recent blasts even after ten days. 

The BJP posed ten questions before the state and central governments in the context of the regular blasts in the country.

Raising a question about the prime minister’s past promise of not letting blasts happen in the country again, Naidu asked about the progress on the much-touted security and counter terrorism machinery. He also asked the Maharashtra chief minister about reducing budgetary allocation even after the 26/11 terror attack. 

“Maharashtra spent Rs3,237 crore in 2008 and Rs2,727 crore in 2009, reducing it further in the following years. The police force here is not well equipped and even the vacancies on large number are unfilled,” he alleged. 

Naidu, who was in the city for the party office bearers’ meeting, said at a press conference on Saturday that it was unfortunate for the union home minister P Chidambaram to announce that their was not intelligence alert of the blasts. He said, citing the media reports, that the government should clarify if it had IB alerts that the Jamat-ud-Daawa, the parent wing of the LeT and the IM were planning to send in fresh batches of militants in the country.  

“Its horrible that the government had no intelligence input before the attack and now has failed to have any progress after the blast. The perpetrators of 11/7 train blast that took place five years ago are still at large,” he said.