Bharatiya Janata Party has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to either confirm or deny the revelations of National Security Advisor M K Narayanan that terrorists and jihadi organisations have invested money in stock exchanges in New Delhi and Mumbai.
Briefing newsmen in New Delhi, BJP leader Rajeev Pratap Rudy asked Dr Singh also to explain if the NSA had brought this to his notice.
"Admitting manipulation of stock exchanges in India to fund terrorist groups through fictitious transactions consolidates BJP's assertion that there is a huge flow of funds to support terrorists and jihadi militant organisations on Indian soil. The government has failed to address the challenge. As of now, there is no unified approach to counter terrorism," he said.
Rudy expressed the concern of the party on Narayanan's statement, wherein he said that terrorists were using Bangladesh for getting into India to spread terror.
"The very fact that one of the very few hurried actions of the United Progressive Alliance government to abolish Prevention of Terrorism Act signalled the government's intention to go soft on terrorism vindicates our earlier allegations," he said.
BJP wanted to know if there was any need for the NSA to make the controversial statement in Munich instead of New Delhi.
"Is he acting at the behest of 10 Janpath rather then doing his duty at the Prime Minister's Office?" Rudy asked.
He also referred to previous statements of Narayanan when he said that Indian nuclear instalations were under threat from terrorists and that jihadi elements had infiltrated the Indian Armed Forces. On both occasions, the government had clarified its position and denied the statements attributed to NSA.
