“How could we ignore this attempt to play politics at such tragic times? What intelligence inputs do they send? It comes every month or every quarterly and the contents remain the same — never specific, just general. They never say whether there could be a terror strike in three days or even three months. They never say where it could happen or when. Their intelligence inputs are like weather reports. Why can’t we have a meeting of all CMs to discuss and find ways to work together?” Vasundhara Raje said.

Citing a string of recent terror strikes in different states, she emphasised the need for the Centre and the states to come together and share intelligence. Recalling that the RCOCA Bill has been pending with the Centre for two years which also refused to re-introduce POTA, she said the states needed something to deal with terror with an “iron hand”.

“If the Centre had no problem with similar laws in Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh, why not Rajasthan and Gujarat? You have to give a level-playing field, especially because Rajasthan and Gujarat have not witnessed such incidents in the past,” she said.

The CM was confident that the terror strikes would not impact tourism in the state. “What happened to Mumbai? Did people stop going there? What happened to New York? Have people stopped going there? There won’t be any impact here as well,” said Vasundhara Raje, asserting that she will take strong steps to crush terror threats.