Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday banned the entry of Bharatiya Janata Party chief Rajnath Singh and party leader M A Naqvi to the CRPF camp in Rampur that was struck by terrorists this morning, and declared them persona non grata.

The two leaders had flown to Rampur in a helicopter to take stock of the situation.

Talking to rediff.com, Naqvi said they were not allowed to land near the spot and were forced to take off again.

"We took the risk and landed in a village near by and from there we managed to reach the spot. It is wrong to call it a fidayeen attack. It is a pure and simple case of terrorists attacking a camp because not even a single attacker was killed," he said.

Party spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, "This vindicates BJP's repeated assertion that many sleeper calls have stealthily positioned themselves in last three years taking advantage of soft polices of the UPA government. This action shows a complete lackadaisical and indifferent approach of the UPA government to fight terrorism and is nothing but an absolute failure."

Rudy charged that the UPA government remained unfazed with the spate of terrorist attacks, which where carried out in Uttar Pradesh in last two years alone.

The fact that not a single accused has been apprehended even after the attacks in Ayodhya, Varanasi and Jaunpur and recent simultaneous serial blasts in Court complexes is an obvious outcome of government's soft pedaling on terrorism, he added.

The BJP leader sought the hanging of December 13 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and said there was no justification for showing any mercy after the highest court of the land had convicted him and dismissed his mercy petitions.

"It is the attitude and intent of the UPA government not only to go soft and slow on terrorism, emboldening jihadi outfits and terrorist organisation to have a free play on the Indian soil. The UPA government has neither the will nor the desire or strength to fight terrorism and instead it continues to indulge in the flip-flop blame game," he said.