Asom: BJP blames PM's attitude for continued blasts

New Delhi, Jan 18: The Bharatiya Janata Party today said thelatest bomb blast in Asom was the result of Prime Minister ManmohanSingh's 'soft and ambiguous' handling of extremist attacks on Hindispeaking people and demanded stern measures against the militants.

BJP spokesaman Prakash Javadekar said now that External AffairsMinister Pranab Mukherjee was visiting Myanmar, he should raise theissue of ULFA's presence in that country with the government trial.

The BJP demanded that the Centre act firmly against the ULFA andother militant groups. The party also demanded that like the NDA, theUPA should also ask Bhutan and Myanmar to crack down on miliatnts basedon those countries.

The result of the NDA government and Bhutan's crackdown was thatthe ULFA was incapable of carrying out strikes against India and itsinterests for quite a long time but the ceasefire decision of the UPAand the Congress government in Asom had allowed their regrouping andtheir ability to strike at will.

He said the Asom government was holding talks with ULFA which didnot care to send people, who could make decisions, for the talks butused the ceasefire to regroup and launch the attack with a renewedvigour. The Asom government did not use the absence of decision makersin talks for stalling the dialogue, Mr Javadekar alleged.

Unless the government launched an all out attack against theextremists taking all the neighbouring countries into confidence,nothing would come out of it and it would only be an empty effort, headded.

UNI

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