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| Rajnath criticizes Omar led regime for mishandling 'Kishtwar violence' | | UPA govt "failed completely" on security, diplomatic fronts | | KUNAL SHRIVATSA
JAMMU, Aug 31: Terming violent incidents early this month in Kishtwar as most 'unfortunate', the National President of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Rajnath Singh blamed the State Government for not curbing the anti-national elements effectively.
Addressing a press conference here today, the BJP chief Rajnath Singh criticized the Omar Abdullah government for encouraging the anti-national forces, inability to control violence in Kishtwar and overall failure in governance.
Singh further said that Kishtwar violence is the handiwork of anti-national forces and the State Government failed to thwart the nefarious designs of those vested interests, who incited the people.
"Some mischievous elements were holding Pakistani flags and were raising pro-Pak slogans… Chief Minister or Home Minister cannot shirk off the responsibility by merely saying that such people were not Indians but Pakistani… If those who indulged in violence were not Indians, then why they are still at large and not arrested," Singh said.
"Is this not true that despite State Home Minister's presence in Kishtwar and the heavy deployment of state police there, the unruly mob went on rampage," he added.
Regretting the collapse of official machinery in Kishtwar, the BJP president said that the credibility of the state government is at stake as a handful of people openly challenged its authority on August 9.
"There is no big challenge to the existence of a government when slogans praising an alien country are raised liberally," BJP president said.
Demanding adequate compensation to traders in Kishtwar on the basis of actual losses suffered, the senior BJP leader said that the affected persons are yet to receive any relief despite assurances and announcement made by the State Government.
He also called upon the state government to initiate preventive and precautionary steps so that the Kishtwar like incidents don't get repeated in future.
BJP president alleged that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has "failed completely" on both the internal as well as external security fronts.
"The mis-governance of Congress has pushed the country into an unprecedented economic crisis besides present dispensation has also turned out to be a complete failure on internal as well as external security besides diplomatic front…. Things have certainly gone out of control and the crisis will further deepen if the central government continue to rule … It will be in the interest of the nation that the present government demits the office sooner than later … That's why we have urged the President to ask Prime Minister to call early Lok Sabha polls," Rajnath told reporters.
When asked about the fate of Asaram Bapu facing the charges of sexual harassment of a minor girl, the BJP president said, "The law will take its own course." |
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