Leader of the Opposition LK Advani on Sunday charged the UPA Government of being soft on terror on account of minority vote banks and demanded that the Centre should revive the anti-terror law—POTA. He also asked the Government to make a statement on each of the terror strikes that has taken place in the country for the past three years.Visiting the city within 12 hours of the twin blasts that claimed more than 42 lives, Advani went to the attack sites at Lumbini ground and Sultan Bazaar in Koti besides consoling those injured at Yashoda, Medicity, Care and Osmania hospitals. He inquired from state police officials present on the nature of explosives at Lumbini ground and at the Gokul Chat corner in Sultan Bazaar.Addressing mediapersons, Advani said the latest terror strikes showed that Hyderabad and Mumbai had become hotbeds of terrorist activity and were major targets of “peddlers of evil and death”. He demanded that the UPA Government should revive the POTA as the present laws were not capable of dealing with terrorism in the country.The senior BJP leader criticised the UPA Government for repealing the POTA and charged that terrorism did not figure in the CMP. He said fighting terror needed proper intelligence gathering that provided inputs to prevent strikes apart from properly investigating the case. Advani said the casual approach towards terrorism of the UPA Government had been more than an invitation to terrorists to strike all over the country at will.According to Advani, both the Centre and Andhra Government should adopt an attitude of zero tolerance towards terror. He demanded that the Centre should come out in the clear with each investigation in the terror strikes in the past three years. “None of the culprits have been caught and the investigation has been hampered by the minorityism practised by the UPA Government, be it Mumbai, Delhi or Varanasi blast. A terrorist does not have any religion and minorityism is dangerous for the country,” Advani added.
