Vote Bank Poli’tricks’ – Investigations into links of NDF with Kashmiri Jihadi’s suspended

Cong, CPM play vote-bank politics: BJP

PNS | Thiruvananthapuram

The Kerala unit of the BJP on Sunday alleged that both the ruling CPI(M) and the Opposition Congress are playing ‘vote bank politics’ surrendering national security by adopting a ‘soft approach’ towards Muslim terrorist outfits in the State.

Though there was sufficient evidence to establish that Islamist organisation National Development Front (NDF) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of Abdul Nasser Madani had links with militants in Kashmir, both the ruling LDF and the Opposition UDF had failed to take action against them, State BJP president PK Krishnadas told reporters here.

Alleging that both the CPI(M) and the Congress were indirectly helping such people with an eye on their votes in the coming Lok Sabha elections, he said the ongoing investigations into the alleged links of NDF activists with Kashmiri militants were almost suspended as they feared about losing votes.

The BJP leader said it seemed both the LDF and the UDF had put in the freezer the Intelligence Bureau reports about Kashmiri militants’ links with Muslim outfits in the State.

“If the police had continued their investigations many big guns would have been trapped,” he said. Those who were arrested by the police were ‘small fishes,’ he said. “The Congress is also not spearheading any effective agitation on the issue because of the coming elections,” he alleged. Krishnadas claimed that both the CPI(M) and the Congress had got NDF and PDP votes in previous elections.

Countering the allegation that terrorist activities had become more intense after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992, he said, “It is baseless as it had happened in 1992, but terrorism existed in Kashmir since 1947.”

On the seizure of a large number of crude bombs in Kannur district, he said, “The BJP will never justify or entertain weapon-politics disturbing peaceful life of the people.”

He said the Government should probe the incidents and take stern action against those involved in such activities. Krishnadas had on Saturday charged the CPI(M) and the State police with initiating efforts to trap leaders of Hindu organisations and BJP and RSS in fabricated cases.

The Marxist party had started this move to divert the people’s ire from it against the ending of operations and investigations against terrorists and also to finish off these parties, he said. Krishnadas also said that the move against the Sangh Pariwar leaders was also aimed at keeping away from the people the relations of certain CPI(M) leaders with Muslim organisations PDP and NDF whose links with Pakistan and Kashmir terrorists.

Krishnadas said that the constitution of a special bomb squad by the State Government for investigations into bomb-making in Kannur district was part of the implementation of this agenda against the BJP leaders.

He alleged that this plan was hatched at a meeting of Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan and some prominent CPI(M) leaders with certain IPS officials loyal to the Marxist party, held in Thiruvananthapuram on November 13.

He also said that the present move was to erase the bad feeling that had developed in the minds of the NDF and PDP due to the nominal operations against terror operations. “This probe is not with any national interest, but the intention of this is to win Muslim votes. It is the same Minister who had once said that bombs would be made even at police stations if needed is now saying that he would end the bomb-making in Kannur,” Krishnadas said.