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BJP says Congress lacks a clear-cut strategy on Left-wing extremism

Author: ET Bureau
Publication: The Economic Times
Date: May 31, 2013
URL: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-05-31/news/39655977_1_congress-party-digvijaya-singh-jp-nadda

Introduction: Says Centre lacks clear-cut strategy on left-wing extremism and is weakening the fight against it.

BJP has asked the Centre to stop sending confusing signals over the fight against Maoists, adopting an aggressive stance for the first time since the extremists eliminated the Congress brass in an attack in Chhattisgarh last Saturday.

 The BJP's general secretary in charge of the state, JP Nadda, took on Congress, which has blamed the state government for the massacre.

Reacting to the finger-pointing by Congress against BJP, Nadda said the Congress-led government at the Centre lacked a clear-cut strategy on Left-wing extremism and was weakening the fight against it. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said Congress' decision to stay away from the all-party meeting at the state capital Raipur was "unfortunate".

 An official told ET that the CM had spoken to the Congress leaders, asking them to attend the all-party meet, and that they had given their assurance. The state government only came to know from the media about the Congress' decision to boycott the meet, said the official. "Whenever ministers like Chidambaram argued for a tough approach, resistance came from within the Congress party.

 The latest is the statement from the tribal affairs minister KP Singh Deo who is once again purveying the root cause theory," Nadda said.

 "The people of the state are brutalised by a force that does not believe in democracy and wants to usurp power by using violence. Only if the ruling party acknowledges this, there can be progress in the fight against Maoists." BJP also made an attempt to claim the legacy of Mahendra Karma, saying it supported the resistance movement founded by the slain Congress leader that was disbanded under orders from the Supreme Court.

 "Keeping the Supreme Court's views on the Salwa Judum in mind, we can make some modifications...But today or tomorrow, we will have to support it," Nadda said, in reply to a question. A few ministers at the Centre favour a soft approach, Nadda said, claiming that Maoism had flourished during the regimes of Congress' Motilal Vohra and Digvijaya Singh in MP before Chhattisgarh was carved out of the state.

 "We want to ask Sonia Gandhi that when 76 CRPF personnel were killed and the then home minister P Chidambaram had assured support, why did she support Digvijaya Singh's criticism of the home minister?" he asked.

 
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