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BJP blasts AGP government

Bharatiya Janata Party chief Bangaru Laxman on Friday unleashed a frontal assault on the Asom Gana Parishad government for its failure to check militancy and infiltration from across the Bangladesh border and held it responsible for the growth of separatist forces in Assam.

According to a senior BJP leader from Assam, the two-page political resolution on the north-east came on the concluding day of its national executive following "two hours of threadbare discussion", in which party leaders spoke on the spread of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence activities across the north-eastern region.

The BJP chief blasted the state government in his opening remarks, underscoring that "it is the cause of all-round failure in controlling militancy and preventing infiltration from across the (Bangladesh) border."

Laxman, according to the state BJP leader, emphasised that "the state government has not been aggressive in putting down terrorist and separatist forces", including the "birth and growth" of numerous Islamic separatist entities.

He quoted the party chief as saying that the United Liberation Front of Assam had been "extremely vicious in its wilful murders of innocent people and increasing cases of extortion on the Assamese people, which had unleashed a rein of terror among them along with insecurity."

Others who attended the two-hour meeting included Assam BJP general secretary Kahindra Purakayastha, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj, party spokesman Sunil Shastri (brother of Congress spokesman Anil Shastri) and party leader Sanghapriya Gautam.

He pointed out that the BJP national executive members took pride that after a long time, the party had highlighted the terrorist menace in the north-east, although the party stopped short of demanding President's rule in Assam and Manipur.

The party members, especially Gautam, discussed the alleged nexus between the Congress, the ULFA and SULFA. They urged the National Democratic Alliance government to clamp down on militants and infiltrators with a heavy hand, so that peace could be restored in the region.

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