Don’t talk of terrorism it sparks insecurity, Cong tells BJP

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Posted online: Thursday , February 07, 2008 at 06:40:03
Updated: Thursday , February 07, 2008 at 06:57:49

New Delhi, February 7: Hitting back at senior BJP leader L K Advani over his criticism of the UPA on the issue of terrorism, Congress on Thursday claimed that Parliament attack convict was arrested and let off under NDA rule two months before the incident took place.

“There is credible information that Afzal Guru was held and let off after questioning two months before the Parliament attack. This is a new fact that has come to the fore. We will investigate the matter,” AICC spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters in New Delhi.

He accused the BJP of hypocrisy and double facedness, saying they talk of terrorism day in and day out to deliberately generate insecurity and mislead the people.

“They used the court judgement in hijacking case as an excuse to attack the Congress and UPA on terrorism. What was their record during their government where the then Home Minister (Advani) was also the Deputy Prime Minister,” he said.

Addressing a rally at Jabalpur, Advani sought to know from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh whether Afzal Guru has been given “unofficial clemency” and the number of terrorist modules busted by his government in the last three-and-a-half years.

Singhvi said that instead of misleading people at his Jabalpur rally, Advani should tell the nation what led to the sudden “capitulation” on December 31, 1999 at Kandahar.

“Why did the self-appointed ‘Loh Purush’ become the ‘soft’ Home Minister sending the Indian Foreign Minister (Jaswant Singh) to escort terrorists to Kandahar.

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peace by Ghosh Gautam on 10 Feb 2008

Agree - pls talk of shanti (peace) , not ashanti ( terror)

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UPA IS PRO TERRORISTS GOVT. by rajababu on 08 Feb 2008

TERRORISM AND TERRORISTS BELIEVE IT IS THEIR UPA GOVT IN POWER, THUS HAVING AN EASY TIME, THEY CAN ATTACK ANYONE ANY WHERE AT WILL, KNOWING WELL SONIA GANDHI WILL SAVE THEM FROM HANGING AND TOUGH PRISON TERMS. AND THIS BABY FACE ABHISuck SINGHVI IS A JOKE, WE REMEMBER WHAT GAFF HE MADE DURING GUJARAT ELECTIONS

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Hilarious.... by withheld on 08 Feb 2008

UPA is right. No one should talk about terrorism because it is against the UPA policy. Terrorists, presumably a minority (not necessarily from the minority community) should have a priority claim on the resources according to UPA and its PM, if the news reports were to believe ;-0) because the wording only says minority without defining who constitutes the minority and on what basis.

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