Rajnath launches frontal attack on UPA regime

Dehradun, Sep 7 (UNI) BJP President Rajnath Singh today launched a frontal attack on the UPA regime for its failure to tackle terrorism even as he offered his party's support to the Government for the passage of a tough law to replace POTA to deal with the menace.

Tackling terrorism does not require a healing touch but a killer instinct, he said inaugurating the party's three-day National Executive.

Terming the absence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi at the centenary celebrations of 'Vande Mataram' as a 'conscious' decision, Mr Singh said her abstinence was compelled by vote bank politics.

Mr Singh said the explanations by Congress leaders on her absence from the celebrations were nothing but ridiculous.

Without going into the controversy over the scrapping of the POTA, implemented by the NDA, "we will suggest that the government bring a strong legislation retaining the ''good clauses' of POTA, to contain terrorism. It has also been a demand by the security agencies. If any such legislation is brought we will support it.

What we want is that the law should not provide a 'healing touch but a killer instinct' against terrorism," party spokesman and general secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad told newspersons.

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