When Cong talks of fighting terror, BJP reminds it of Guru

NEW DELHI: Congress��� roadmap to combat terrorism, which was unveiled here on Tuesday by Union home minister P Chidambaram, came in for heavy-duty criticism a day later from BJP, which tore into the Manmohan Singh government���s track record on internal security.

BJP on Wednesday came out with a seven-point chargesheet, and asked Congress to come clean on each of them. It included the UPA government���s refusal to carry out the Supreme Court���s orders on the execution of Afzal Guru and the scrapping of IMDT Act, its flip-flop on Pota, its approach towards Pakistan and terrorism sponsored by it, the never-ending run of bomb blasts in Assam and police modernisation.

���Afzal Guru���s plea for pardon has been pending before the President for the last two-and-a-half years. Such power is to be exercised by the President upon the advice of the Union Cabinet. He has been found guilty by the judiciary right up to SC in one of the worst cases of terrorist violence. Even his review and curative petition has been rejected by SC,��� pointed out BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad, wondering why had the Centre and the Delhi government, both run by the Congress, been sitting on the matter.

The BJP leader poked fun on the Congress��� flip-flop on the anti-terror law. ���Pota���s removal was tomtommed as a big achievement. All the security experts, including NSA, openly advocated the need for a strong anti-terror law. Yet, it was only after 26/11 that such a law in a different form was enacted,��� Mr Prasad contended.