Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and offered all support. Condemning the attack, Singh urged the people of Jaipur to be calm “at this difficult moment” and assured all possible assistance to the state government to restore normalcy and “to go to the root of this attack”.

Condemning the attack, President Pratibha Patil appealed for peace and calm.

Terming the blasts as “despicable and dastardly acts”, Vice-President Hamid Ansari expressed his deepest sympathies to the families of those killed and injured.

Condoling the tragic loss of innocent lives in the serial blasts, Congress president Sonia Gandhi called the terror attacks a “crime against humanity”.

BJP chief Rajnath Singh said the blasts were a “dangerous” indication of Pakistan-based terror groups spreading their activities into the country’s hinterland and Hindi heartland.

Blaming the Congress-led UPA Government’s “soft approach” towards terrorism, senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said such attacks were the result of the “weak policies” of a government headed by a “weak Prime Minister and a “coward Home Minister”.

BJP leader Arun Jaitley said such terror acts “must arouse a greater national desire of becoming a hard state and should increase the country’s resolve to fight terror”.

“The United States condemns the vicious acts of terrorism in Jaipur. We extend our deepest sympathies to those injured and to the victims’ families. There can be no possible justification for murderous attacks on innocent people,” said US Ambassador to India David C Mulford.