The BJP on Sunday came down heavily on the Central Government for failing to avert the serial bomb blasts in Uttar Pradesh, which killed 13 people on Friday, and said it would raise the issue in the coming Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh elections. “The recent terror strikes in Uttar Pradesh have exposed the soft-on-terror policy of the UPA Government,” the party said in a resolution adopted at a meeting of the office-bearers in Delhi this morning. “The Indian Parliament and symbols of India’s religious and cultural diversity have been attacked in the past. Centres of India’s economic growth have also been attacked. Now judicial centres are under terrorist attacks The UP attacks were symbolic of the terrorists’ ability to strike at will,” the resolution said. It also attacked the BSP Government in Uttar Pradesh, saying it had failed dismally in tackling terror. “The BSP Government recently enacted a POTA type law to tackle organised crime. Why can’t such a law be used against terrorists? This is motivated by the vote bank politics of the UP Government,” it said. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said the blasts could have been averted had the Governments and intelligence agencies been more alert. In a statement, Vajpayee said the blasts were part of a conspiracy to spread unrest in the country by terrorists and anti-national elements and called upon the people of Uttar Pradesh to exercise restraint and maintain peace and unity. “I am not able to come to meet you, but I am with you in this difficult moment,” Vajpayee, who represents Lucknow in the Lok Sabha, said.
