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Onkar Singh in New Delhi
The chairman of Panther's Party, Bhim Singh, has demanded that the Union government should remove Dr Farooq Abdullah as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir 'without any further delay'.
Reacting to the terrorist attack on the Raghunath Temple in Jammu on Saturday, he said that a 'strong governor' should be sent to J&K to oversee the forthcoming assembly polls.
He alleged that the attack on the temple could not have taken place without the 'active connivance' of the state administration.
According to him the state intelligence had been from time-to-time alerted the administration about the possibility of terrorist attack on important Hindu temples like Vaishno Devi Temple and the Raghunath Temple.
"But no effective steps were taken to prevent such incidents," he alleged.
He said, "Farooq Abdullah has a one-point programme and that is to install his son Omar Abdullah as the chief minister of the state. And to do that he could go to any extent."
However, Minister of State for Home Affairs, I D Swami, said that the removal of Farooq Abdullah from the post of chief ministership was not an answer to the terrorist violence in the state.
"The attack on Raghunath Temple is definitely a handiwork of the ISI," Swami told rediff.com.
"We have been all along telling the international community that the action taken by the Pakistani government against the Jihadis was an eyewash. Now this has been proved," he said.
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