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"A lack of political leadership is to blame," The Wall Street Journal said as India's financial capital continued to battle terrorists who had struck in 10 places in the city on 26th November.
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised that 'every perpetrator would pay the price'. Yet his Congress Party has done little more than bicker with its coalition allies over the past five years on how best to fight terrorism," the journal said.
Observing that the attacks are a reminder that India is at the top of the terror target list, the newspaper said this is because India is an easy target.
Not only are its intelligence units understaffed and lack resources, coordination among State police forces is also poor. "The country's anti-terror legal architecture is also inadequate; there is no preventive detention law, and prosecutions can take years," it said.
In another opinion piece published by The Journal, author Sadanand Dhume blamed the Congress for scrapping the anti-terror law POTA. "On taking office in 2004, one of the first acts of the ruling Congress Party was to scrap a federal antiterrorism law that strengthened witness protection and enhanced police powers," he wrote.
"The Congress Party has stalled similar state-level legislation in Gujarat, which is ruled by the opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. And it was a Congress government that kowtowed to fundamentalist pressure and made India the first country to ban Mumbai-born Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' in 1988," he said.
Dhume, a Washington-based writer and author of "My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with an Indonesian Islamist", said the Indian approach to terrorism has been consistently haphazard and weak-kneed.
Nearly 7,000 people have lost their lives during the UPA government's rule since 2004 in over 25,000 incidents, according to latest data available with the Union home ministry.
While the first year of the UPA government saw 6,029 incidents that claimed 1,721 lives, the number of incidents fell as also the number of casualties from the next year onwards. In 2005, there were 5,709 incidents in which 1,598 people died while in 2006 there were 5,240 attacks that left 1,352 people dead. In the following year, 4,907 incidents occurred in which 1,215 people lost their lives. This year till September one, 3,157 incidents took place in which 760 people died. The figures for the current year exclude the Mumbai terror attacks in which nearly 200 people have died. Major terror strikes during the UPA period includes the Hyderabad blasts that claimed over 40 lives, Samjhauta Express explosion in which 68 people died and Malegaon and serial train attacks in Mumbai that left over 230 dead, besides the latest Mumbai attacks.
During the NDA period, which saw 36,259 incidents and 11,714 deaths, the major attacks were on Parliament House, Akshardham temple and terror strikes at an army camp in Jammu besides storming of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly.
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