When Mumbai was burning on 26/11, the then chief minister of Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh was not in town. So, the then Home minister of India, Shivraj Patil, who was very "famous" for his comical, non-serious statements, "rushed" to some places where some of the attacks had taken place.
Later, he gave a hero's statement to media thus: "Before I could reach there, the terrorists who had attacked one of the hospitals, had left and those who attacked the railway station had also left"!!
On 28th, Union minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal said: "We have gathered a lot of information and all the terrorists were foreigners. Some of them were from Pakistan and some from other countries. They had come through the sea route”.
But he added: "There were serial blasts in Bengaluru just before the Assembly elections were held in Karnataka. Similarly, Assembly elections are soon to happen in four other states. We also have to take note that three senior Maharashtra ATS officers have died in ambush with terrorists. Certain political parties have been targeting the ATS for the last one month. All these factors will be part of the further investigations”.
That was a clear reference to BJP, his political opposition party!
Vilasrao Deshmukh went a step further.
On November 30, a day after the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked for the ISI chief to be called to India as investigations had revealed a Pak-hand in the Terror attacks, he spoke to the press after a special cabinet meeting.
Deshmukh told the media persons that there was no information available from initial investigations to nail Pakistan! He even denied that people were taken as hostages!
He said: "If people would have been taken as hostages, then terrorists would have put some demands. But there were no demands”!!
These are our "leaders".
Shame on them.
(C) G. ANIL KUMAR 2008.
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