BJP demands policy shift to tackle internal security

Dehradun, Sep 9 (UNI) Expressing serious concern over the prevailing internal security scenario, the Bharatiya Janata Party today called for a major policy shift in the area of security management.

Accusing the UPA Government of never having given priority to internal security in its more than two and a half year rule, the party said unless the Manmohan Singh government ''delinked its policy on handling security issues from vote bank politics, national security would be in peril.'' In a resolution on Internal Security adopted on the last day of its three-day National Executive meeting here, the party said that it would continue to campaign to arouse national opinion to compel the government to bring about a major policy shift, adding the internal security was never as much threatened as it was today.

The four-page resolution said the ruling coalition, in its Common Minimum Programme (CMP), had no mention how to combat terrorism, contain militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, and stop the movement of saboteurs, subversives, arms and explosives across the border.

''Similarly there was no concern about strengthening the internal security apparatus to combat left wing extremism,'' it said.

Asserting that withdrawal of POTA had shown the government's ''mindset and its Weak-kneed policies, the resolution said the move had encouraged subversive and fundamentalist groups within and outside the country and undermined the national thrust against terrorism.

Besides it also demoralised the security agencies and brought about complacency in their resolve to fight terrorism, the resolution maintained.

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