Yechury blames Hyderabad blasts on ‘privatisation’
Consistent with its approach of de-emphasising the roots of terror attacks in favour of “dialogue” and “understanding”, the CPM has put the blame for the Hyderabad terror attack on inadequate security arrangements.
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: Consistent with its approach of de-emphasising the roots of terror attacks in favour of “dialogue” and “understanding”, the CPM has put the blame for the Hyderabad terror attack on inadequate security arrangements in Lumbini Park.
Party leader Sitaram Yechury saw an opportunity in the issue to flog his party’s favourite anti-privatisation theme. “When I visited the site of the blast the day after the incident and enquired as to how this could have happened, I was informed that the security of the complex had been handed over by the state government to a private agency.
This urge to privatise everything in the name of ‘reforms’, including public security, is a scourge that is permitting such non-accountability of authority,” he said in an article in CPM’s mouthpiece ‘People’s Democracy’.
Mr Yechury, who conceded that Hyderabad has become a target for terrorist activities, refrained from assessing the root of the problem. Although there is the usual criticism of an intelligence failure, Mr Yechury said this aspect can be settled through an enquiry. “An enquiry is surely in the order of things.
The important point is not whether it shall be a judicial enquiry or one conducted by the CBI. The important point is that a proper enquiry is conducted to pinpoint the lapses and establish the accountability of security personnel. This is absolutely imperative to guard ourselves against future attacks.”
The CPM leader joined his friends in the ruling side to reject the call for stringent anti-terror laws, and purveyed the by-now-familiar argument that a law like Pota could not prevent the attack on Parliament.
“Even when Pota adorned our statute books, such attacks took place. During the NDA rule Parliament was attacked, the Red Fort was attacked, the Raghunath temple was attacked twice, the Akshardam terrorist attack claimed many lives, etc,” he said.
Party leader Sitaram Yechury saw an opportunity in the issue to flog his party’s favourite anti-privatisation theme. “When I visited the site of the blast the day after the incident and enquired as to how this could have happened, I was informed that the security of the complex had been handed over by the state government to a private agency.
This urge to privatise everything in the name of ‘reforms’, including public security, is a scourge that is permitting such non-accountability of authority,” he said in an article in CPM’s mouthpiece ‘People’s Democracy’.
Mr Yechury, who conceded that Hyderabad has become a target for terrorist activities, refrained from assessing the root of the problem. Although there is the usual criticism of an intelligence failure, Mr Yechury said this aspect can be settled through an enquiry. “An enquiry is surely in the order of things.
The important point is not whether it shall be a judicial enquiry or one conducted by the CBI. The important point is that a proper enquiry is conducted to pinpoint the lapses and establish the accountability of security personnel. This is absolutely imperative to guard ourselves against future attacks.”
The CPM leader joined his friends in the ruling side to reject the call for stringent anti-terror laws, and purveyed the by-now-familiar argument that a law like Pota could not prevent the attack on Parliament.
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“Even when Pota adorned our statute books, such attacks took place. During the NDA rule Parliament was attacked, the Red Fort was attacked, the Raghunath temple was attacked twice, the Akshardam terrorist attack claimed many lives, etc,” he said.
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