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| J&K CM's infiltration report has takers | | PM causes a stir among security officials | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has caused a stir among security officials by going against their assessment or finding on the infiltration of militants and terrorists from Pakistan. His public statement that infiltration across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir has "diminished" is totally different from the statements on the issue by his Defence Minister and Home Minister.
Manmohan Singh's statement which found an expression during his address at the conclave of Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled States at Nainital on September 23, is also strikingly different from the recent statement of the Jammu and Kashmir Chiefr Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, on infiltration levels. Azad did find takers within the Indian security establishment and intelligence community for his last week's statement that infiltration in his home State (J&K) had increased in the last three months.
Ghulam Nabi Azad's assessment was in line with that of the Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, and Home Minister, Shivraj Patil. The Prime Minister was not kept in the dark by the Ministry of Home Affairs when it infrormed Parliament during the recent monsoon session that infiltration did show an increase in the first six months of 2006. What has taken the security officals by surprise is the Prime Minister's remark that vested interests are playing up "stray incidents of violence" in Jammu and Kashmir.
Manmohan Singh, who before his recent meeting in Havana with Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, had made a pointed reference to the continuing cross-border infiltration and terrorism in J&K, held his tick from a different end as he addressed the conclave of Chief Ministers at Nainital. The Prime Minister and his Defence Minister difered on the infiltration levels. On August 15, Pranab Mukherjee made it public: "Infiltration from acros the borders is going on non-stop..."
Before the conclusion of Parliament's 2006 monsoon session, Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, stated in Rajya Sabha that infiltration had increased. Again, Prime Minister, like others in his government, knew that Shivraj patil did inform Rajya Sabha that infiltration recorded between January and June 2006 was up to 27 as against 92 of the corresponding period last year. Prime Minister just cannot be expected to be unaware of what his Man Friday, MK Narayanan, stated a few weeks ago. Narayanan, who is the National Security Advisor, obviously spoke his Prime Minister's language: Training camps for terrorists across the border (in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir) have not been closed down.
And if the Prime Minister did once again warn of a terror strike, the BJP termed Manmohan Singh's warning as an 'advance alibi' to protect his government's 'inaction, incompetence and total capitulation' in the face of mounting terror attacks from across the border. BJP chief, Rajnath Singh, said that Manmohan Singh warning the country of more fidayeen and terror attacks on religious, economic and other sensitive targets was an advance alibi to protect the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's inaction, incompetence and total capitulation in the face of mounting terror attacks from across the border.
Also taking a strong exception to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's statement in Nainital that the anti-terrorist action should not polarise society, the BJP chief alleged that she was playing vote bank politics. 'It overrides the immense danger of frequent terror attacks destabilising the total nation. The acts and statements of the two top leaders of the UPA have only fuelled the bug of polarisation in an already fragile social harmony in the country,' Rajnath Singh said. |
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