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  • At the Congress Working Committee meeting last Saturday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh listed seven challenges facing the country. Five of these challenges were related to internal security, including leftwing extremism and communalism. The remaining two were inflation and the energy deficit. While Finance Minister P. Chidambaram made a spirited 20-minute intervention and apprised the Congress’s apex body about measures he intended to take to control inflation, the rest of the meeting was given over to back-slapping on the success of Indo-US nuclear deal.

    No one asked Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who due to his phenomenal incompetence has become an object of ridicule even in the ruling party and among the Congress’s allies, to address the CWC on internal security. Perhaps the busy Congress leaders did not want a long-drawn high fat and low protein lecture from Patil.

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    Exactly 11 minutes after the conclave ended at the Parliament

    Annexe at 6 pm, an improvised explosive device (IED) went off just 5 km away at Gaffar Market, in Karol Bagh. In the next half an hour four more bombs exploded in Delhi’s busy markets, in the city’s worst terrorist incident since the October 2005 Diwali blasts, which to date remain unsolved.

    That only the nuclear deal, and not terrorism, was the focus of the CWC appears symptomatic of the ostrich-like mentality of the ruling UPA and the Congress, both of which have a strange reading of the sensitivities of the minorities. With crucial assembly and Parliament elections only months away, this reading is showing itself in a kind of appeasement that had Congress, BSP and SP leaders trooping to the house of the Ahmedabad blast accused, Abu Bashir, last month to offer sympathies to his relatives after he was arrested.

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    terrorBy: rammohan | 16-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward Minority appesement politics is the main problem. The law of the land had punished this HM had forwarded for clememncy to the president. The president will not review it at all for the next many years. Spineless HM and spineless PM and the Chair person gets letter from Papa for distroying the followers of hindu faith. secular bigade goes to all terrorist families with cheques and money to support them too. we need more Narendra Mody's i every state, who can deal terrorism with iron hands.
    Iron Hand or Hindu HandBy: Hey Ram | 18-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward Yes and we need the iron hand in Orissa and Karnataka too to deal with Hindu terrorism there.
    Politics of IndiaBy: Politically Incorrect | 16-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward We should not really be surprised with the conduct of the 'secular' partymen. They, by fundamental and definition, will stand for the accused in terror attacks in the name of minority protection. After all, how can one forget the conduct of Vasant Davkhare, the NCP Deputy Chairperson of the Legislative Council of Maharashtra, who visited the family of Ishrat Jehan, the L-e-T commander killed by Gujarat police, with a cheque of Rs. 2 lakhs as "compensation". Compensation-that also to the family of a terrorist-IT HAPPENS ONLY IN INDIA!!!!
    Well...we elected themBy: Rohit | 16-Sep-2008 Reply | Forward We elected them (cong/upa) and we are facing the consequences of it. Hats off to all those secularists who think cong is still the good old secular party it started out as. After independence this party single-handledly divided the country on lines of religion, language, caste, etc. It has single-handedly destroyed the secular fabric of this country. Yet I wonder why secular people don't see it.
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