India has been bombarded again.This time, it is Hyderabad.
Haven't we written enough essays on 'How to curb terrorism in India' or 'Terrorism in India' in schools/colleges?
Were they too crumbled and thrown away in the dustbin like those lives?
And why now? We have had enough Facebook updates, Tweets, essays in school on ways to handle terror.
The recent Hyderabad blast proved our impunity on handling terror attacks.
We have our intelligent Home Minister who claims he already knew about 'Possible Terror Strike' but has no clue why he didn't alert the police.
Someone with even minimal reasonable Intelligence could have easily predicted some tension after Afsal Guru's hanging.
But we had our HM, Mr. Shinde foul-mouth-ing about terror run camps by BJP and RSS- exactly what Pakistan longs to hear.
If ISI, in parallel universe ever tries to disclose their terror camps, India would have no right to point on them.
16 killed, 117 injured in Hyderabad serial blasts
Source:Jagran
Reason: We cannot fight something as foreign as terror when country's two major political parties are busy taking political points on each other. Even if Shinde was right about the RSS and BJP terror groups, all he should have done was to simply collect evidences and prosecute the suspects.
How do you save a country by making terror remarks on saffron group and then apologizing for the remarks?
Here, I shall quote a post content by FirstPost:
"There is a strong case for setting up a National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) so that we can bring our combined resources together to fight terror. But this can’t happen in our federal system where law and order is a state subject. To fight terror, you need to get the states on board since it is also manifestly in their interest to cooperate. No state in India is actually immune to terror. Here, once again, the finger of accusation must point more towards the center. States are deeply suspicious about the center ability to be evenhanded when it comes to dealing with non-Congress-ruled states. This is the prime reason why they won’t cooperate on NCTC. Consider the centre’s poor record on cooperation with states. First, it will send former intelligence officials and Congress time-servers to be governors of opposition-ruled states. People like HR Bhardwaj in Karnataka and Kamla Beniwal in Gujarat have had daggers drawn with state governments. A former National Security Advisor in Governor of Bengal. How are states supposed to work in cooperation with the center when governors cannot be trusted by elected governments? Second, if the states appear to have blocked the NCTC, the center is not exactly playing honest broker in the game. Many bills legislated by opposition-ruled states for dealing with organised crime and terrorism have been blocked by the centre. A report in The Indian Express last February noted that “more than 20 bills have been kept hanging in states where the BJP is in power, some for more than two years now. These have been kept pending either by the governor, who actually cannot withhold consent, or by the President, whose approval is necessary for the Bill to become law.” Among the bills were at least two to counter terrorism. One is GUJCOC (Gujarat Control of Organised Crime) in Gujarat and the other is MPTDACOC (MP Terrorism and Disruptive Activities and Control of Organised Crimes) in Madhya Pradesh. Both are bills these states consider vital to deal with terror groups. The center claims there is no need for these laws since its own Unlawful Activities Prevention Act is good enough. But do we have great faith in UAPA? There have been 11 terror strikes since 26/11 in India, and UAPA has been a miserable failure. In any case, why deny states their own stronger laws? It is worth noting that the existence of UAPA did not stop the center from allowing Maharashtra to have its own MCOCA (the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act). GUJCOC is almost a replica of MCOCA, but it’s no-go just because Gujarat is run by the BJP’sNarendra Modi. Ditto for Madhya Pradesh. "
Bottom line?
Keep writting essays, blog posts, tweets, while India needs a unifier HM and a strong Congress Party that doesn't play politics with opposition and an opposition who doesn't take make it their right-till-they-die to oppose everything the UPA govt does!
