As usual, following the terror attack, blame game has started among politicians

One more bomb blast and no perceptible change in behaviour or statements. One can easily predict our politicians, who react the same after any such bomb blast. As usual, politicians did not wait a minute before starting the blame game.


Same cause: Home Minister P Chidambaram

They also seemed to be competing with each other to be the first to visit the spot and hospitals, without caring a bit about the hassles they created for security agencies and hospital staff. Picking holes in the government stand on the issue, main Opposition party BJP insisted that no Intelligence was an Intelligence failure and sought to know why the security apparatus at the site was not strengthened, despite an earlier incident that took place in May. "We need to strengthen our investigation process and Intelligence. No Intelligence is an Intelligence failure," said Arun Jaitley, Leader of Opposition, in Rajya Sabha.


BJP President Nitin Gadkari

The BJP also blamed the government for not taking any action after the last blast at Delhi High Court four months ago. After visiting the spot and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj said, "It is shocking that this is the second blast in the last four months at the same area. The CCTV cameras were to be installed but the government did not take any action."


Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit visit victims. Pics/Rajeev Tyagi

Echoing his party mates, BJP President Nitin Gadkari advised Home Minister P Chidambaram to concentrate on fighting terrorism rather than attacking his political opponents. Gadkari demanded a high-level probe into the incident and a probe into the failure of the Intelligence agencies.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday night said there are some leads to the terror attack outside Delhi High Court but "it is too early to say which group is behind the incident."

"We have some leads but it is too early to say which group is behind it", Dr. Singh told media persons accompanying him on his return from Dhaka to New Delhi.

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Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister
I talked about cooperation with all political parties. Instead of wasting time on mutual bickering and mutual recrimination, I would ask all political parties, all shades of intelligent public opinion in the country to pool their knowledge wisdom and experience on how we can tackle this (menace of terrorism).

Nitin Gadkari, President, BJP
A high-level probe in to this act of terrorism to bring the culprits to book at the earliest should be launched. The probe should also look into the failure of the Intelligence agencies.
Home Minister P Chidambram should stop training his guns against political opponents and concentrate his energy on tackling the menace of terrorism.