07-13-2006, 02:33 AM
<b>Mumbai blasts a warning to the entire country: Modi </b>
<b>India reacts only to the loss of its territory, not peopleâ </b>
<b>Terror is practised by local recruits. PM wonât hear it from security advisers </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The priorities of the coalition government were quite evident at the UPA-Left coordination meeting on June 15. The counter-insurgent Salwa Judum movement in Naxalite-infested areas of Chhattisgarh occupied as much time and attention as Kashmir violence.<b> The Left criticised the BJP taking over a movement started by a Congress MLA. Communal violence in Gujarat rightly figured in the meeting but this was more in the context of the BJP-bashing rather as a starting point for discussing jihadi recruitment in India.</b>
The answer to combating homegrown terror does not lie in increasing the number of babus in the home ministry or creating another cell in North Block. The PM gave short shrift to Patilâs cabinet proposal for a Rs 12 lakh allocation to set up an anti-Naxalite cell in the home ministry. That would have been a waste of Rs 12 lakh of taxpayersâ money. Dr Singh needs to listen to the grim evidence from the fields. Evidence that may not be politically comfortable for some of his colleagues. But evidence that may help save many of his fellow citizens.
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<b>India reacts only to the loss of its territory, not peopleâ </b>
<b>Terror is practised by local recruits. PM wonât hear it from security advisers </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The priorities of the coalition government were quite evident at the UPA-Left coordination meeting on June 15. The counter-insurgent Salwa Judum movement in Naxalite-infested areas of Chhattisgarh occupied as much time and attention as Kashmir violence.<b> The Left criticised the BJP taking over a movement started by a Congress MLA. Communal violence in Gujarat rightly figured in the meeting but this was more in the context of the BJP-bashing rather as a starting point for discussing jihadi recruitment in India.</b>
The answer to combating homegrown terror does not lie in increasing the number of babus in the home ministry or creating another cell in North Block. The PM gave short shrift to Patilâs cabinet proposal for a Rs 12 lakh allocation to set up an anti-Naxalite cell in the home ministry. That would have been a waste of Rs 12 lakh of taxpayersâ money. Dr Singh needs to listen to the grim evidence from the fields. Evidence that may not be politically comfortable for some of his colleagues. But evidence that may help save many of his fellow citizens.
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