By IANS,
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday accused the Congress party and its general secretary Rahul Gandhi of politicising the security issues of the country, especially the threat from Maoist guerrillas.
“The Congress party has been trying to give a political colour to the issues concerned with the security of the country. Rahul Gandhi, in his recent statements, has held the ‘failure of the local administrations to deliver’ as being responsible for the growing Naxalism,” BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said here.
Rudy added that such statements by Congress leaders “create doubts about government policies to root out Naxal terror”.
He also appealed to Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to explain their policy and the steps taken to fight Maoist terror.
Rudy condoled the death of 17 policemen in the Maoist attack in Maharashtra and expressed sympathy with the families of those killed.
In a major attack barely days before the assembly polls, Maoist guerrillas Thursday ambushed a police patrol and gunned down at least 17 policemen in a jungle stretch of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district. Suspected Maoists also slit the throat of a police informer and dumped his body in the same district.