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Repeated terrorist strikes in quick succession suggest that Uttar Pradesh is fast emerging as a theatre of jihadi violence in India. What is equally ominous is the gradual spread of jihad's deadly tentacles with the police failing to take pre-emptive action as well as bring the guilty and their associates to book. Following the jihadi strike on the Group Centre of the Central Reserve Police Force at Rampur in the early hours of Tuesday, there is further confirmation that precious little is being done by both Central intelligence agencies and the State police to prevent the heartland from becoming a happy hunting ground for Islamists armed with guns, bombs and their vicious ideology of hate which justifies the cold-blooded murder of innocent people in the name of religion.
It is now clear that there is little co-ordination between the Centre and the States on sharing intelligence - New Delhi believes its job is over with passing on intelligence inputs to State Governments; State agencies claim that either the inputs are too vague or reach them too late. Whatever the truth, jihadis are enormously benefited by the mess that prevails; the price for authority's abysmal failure is paid by those who are slaughtered and maimed as well as their families.
Of course, all this and more is of little interest to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who is rarely seen and even less heard. He owes an explanation as to why the CRPF centre was so poorly protected although it was on the hit list of terrorists. However, it would be unfair to blame the Home Minister alone. For, it is also evident that cynical politics of pandering to crass minorityism is increasingly becoming an obstacle to fight terror; by confusing Muslim sentiments with the diabolical fervour of Islamists, enormous damage is being caused to national security by the UPA Government and the me-too-secular State Governments, especially the regime in Uttar Pradesh.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Outrage in Rampur: India pays the price for UPA's folly
Repeated terrorist strikes in quick succession suggest that Uttar Pradesh is fast emerging as a theatre of jihadi violence in India. What is equally ominous is the gradual spread of jihad's deadly tentacles with the police failing to take pre-emptive action as well as bring the guilty and their associates to book. Following the jihadi strike on the Group Centre of the Central Reserve Police Force at Rampur in the early hours of Tuesday, there is further confirmation that precious little is being done by both Central intelligence agencies and the State police to prevent the heartland from becoming a happy hunting ground for Islamists armed with guns, bombs and their vicious ideology of hate which justifies the cold-blooded murder of innocent people in the name of religion.
It is now clear that there is little co-ordination between the Centre and the States on sharing intelligence - New Delhi believes its job is over with passing on intelligence inputs to State Governments; State agencies claim that either the inputs are too vague or reach them too late. Whatever the truth, jihadis are enormously benefited by the mess that prevails; the price for authority's abysmal failure is paid by those who are slaughtered and maimed as well as their families.
Of course, all this and more is of little interest to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who is rarely seen and even less heard. He owes an explanation as to why the CRPF centre was so poorly protected although it was on the hit list of terrorists. However, it would be unfair to blame the Home Minister alone. For, it is also evident that cynical politics of pandering to crass minorityism is increasingly becoming an obstacle to fight terror; by confusing Muslim sentiments with the diabolical fervour of Islamists, enormous damage is being caused to national security by the UPA Government and the me-too-secular State Governments, especially the regime in Uttar Pradesh.
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