Some UPA partners friendly with Maoists: BJP
By IANSWednesday, April 7, 2010
NEW DELHI - Alleging that some parties of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) were close to Leftist guerrillas, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said the government was a mute spectator when Maoists were spreading terror.
“Sections of the UPA have made Maoist-friendly noises in some states. West Bengal is a telling example of this,” a BJP statement said in an oblique reference to Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress.
The remark comes two days after the attack Tuesday by hundreds of Maoist rebels who trapped and killed 76 security personnel in a jungle in Chhattisgarh.
The BJP in a resolution adopted in the first meeting of its newly-appointed office bearers condemned the attack calling it “barbaric, inhuman and anti-national”.
“This attack is a grim reminder to the nation that both the geographical spread and the intensity of fire power of the Maoists has increased manifold in the past six years of the UPA rule.”
The party said it was a challenge to the “nationalist forces of India that we must launch a fight to finish against the subversive Maoists forces”.
“We call upon the government of India and all states to work out and strengthen the unified strategy against Maoists,” the statement said.
The party alleged that the central government was “silent spectator” when Maoists were growing many fold during the first term of the Congress-led UPA government.
“In Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, the Congress cozied up to the Maoists on election eve,” the statement added.
