Coastal security breach: BJP questions preparedness to deal with intrusions

NEW DELHI: The BJP questioned the UPA government’s preparedness to tackle maritime intrusions. As the controversy over MV Seaman Guard Ohio deepened, the BJP also asked the government how the US ship was earlier allowed to leave Kochi port.

BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman recalled similar instances—Somali boat captured along the Gujarat coast in 2011, and aship MV Pavit found adrift at Juhu-Versova beach— to highlight coastal security breach.



“Post the enquiry, if it is established that this was a private rogue/cowboy operator, has the Government any mechanism to deal with it,”she asked.