Country's intelligence machinery weak: Joshi

Nagpur, July 29: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi said that the country's internal intelligence machinery is so weak that the militants can easily carry out their mission of killing innocent people.

Mr Joshi, the former Lok Sabha Speaker, said weakness of the Intelligence Bureau had resulted in recent serial train bomb blasts in Mumbai.

He cautioned the Centre and the State Government that if the intelligence machiery did not have not proper information and timely action, the destructive activities by millitants would continue in the country.

Mr Joshi, Shiv Sena working president Uddhav tahckery and BJP leader Gopinath Munde were informally interacting with mediapersons here this morning, while they were on way to Daryapur in Amravati district to attend a function.

The Sena leader said it had been known that 27 kg RDX was used in the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, which claimed more than 250 lives. About 50 kg of the same explosive was seized from different places in Maharashtra recently, he said and expressed that more explosive could be hidden in the State.

Meanwhile, Mr Uddhav Thackeray said the Maharashtra Government has totally failed to trace the real culprits involved in the serial train bomb blasts. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), house of Sena chief Bal Thackeray, Prime Minister's residence, temples and Ganeshotsav in Mumbai were allegedly the main targets on the list of the terrorist organisations, he added.

To a question, he said all relations with Pakistan should be snapped and internal security should be beefed-up. The influx of Bangadeshis should also be stopped in Mumbai and elsewhere in the country, he added.

UNI