BJP parliamentary board seeks adequate security to Modi

Ahmedabad, 6 November 2013

The Parliamentary Board of the BJP on Tuesday took a serious note of the murderous attack on the BJP Rally at Patna on 27/10/13 and demanded that the government take all necessary steps to provide adequate security to Shri Narendra Modi who besides being a chief Minister is the party’s Candidate for the office of the Prime Minister.

The BJP statement said: Modi’s security is the responsibility of the central government, and the party hopes that the central government will not undermine Mr. Modi’s security based on political and collateral considerations.

The statement reads: “This was an attempt to liquidate the BJP leaders present at the rally. It was an attempt to inflict fatal injuries on the lakhs of people present at the rally. Had the leaders and the audience not acted with exemplary restraint panic and a resultant stampede would not have been avoided.”

“The BJP views this as an attack on Indian democracy. It is a failed attempt to intimidate the BJP which is attracting an unprecedented support from the people across the country. The BJP takes a serious note of the fact that both the Centre and the state government of Bihar have been grossly negligent in providing adequate security measures which are commensurate with the threat perception faced by Shri Narendra Modi BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate for 2014 general elections. The state police refused the protocol of Advance security liaison( ASL) with the Gujarat Police on the pretext that the central government had not required this. The venue was not sanitized. No anti sabotage tests were conducted. Explosives could freely enter the venue.”

“The recovery of bombs at the Gandhi Maidan and later at Ranchi establishes that a well networked module of terrorist was operating in the region. It was an undetected module indicating an intelligence failure.”

“It is disturbing that despite this monumental failure the Centre and the state government are not apologetic and continue to be in denial over the security failure. The Patna fasco indicates that if government’s are soft on terror, only such disaster will result. No alibi given by the Bihar Government is adequate to absolve it of the guilt of gross negligence.”