Arun Shourie favours bulletproof structure at Ayodhya

Kozhikode, Aug 30 (UNI) Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union Minister Arun Shourie today favoured the Centre's move on erecting a temporary bulletproof steel structure around the idol of Lord Ram at Ayodhya to ward off possible terrorist attacks.

In a meet-the-press programme held here he said it was an important decision in the wake of escalating terrorist activities allegedly supported by a neigbouring country.

He said the government could not overlook the security of large groups of people who lived around the disputed site at Ayodhya.

Hence it was the administration's primary responsibility to provide security, he added.

On the increasing number of suicides by debt-ridden farmers followed by crop failure, he said it was mainly because of the failure of the administration in sorting out their problems.

He said the district collectors should be accessible to farmers so that the needy persons could walk up to them to discuss and resolve their problems.

Mr Shourie said although the government had announced packages for farmers in Vidarbha region in Maharashtra, relief measures seldom reached the affected persons.

Many packages were announced but the delivery was late, he said adding a package announced earlier for Vidharbha region was yet to reach the farmers.

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