Pune blast figures in Rajya Sabha

The Congress-NCP government in the state is not acting enough on terror issue: Shiv Sena

The Pune blast that left three persons injured had its echo in Rajya Sabha today with Shiv Sena suggesting that the Congress-NCP government in the state is not acting enough on terror issue.

Alleging that the "sleeper cells of Indian Mujahideen are more active in Pune" and that they operate in entire Mumbai from there, Sena member Sanjay Raut said there are certain areas in which even the police dare not enter.

Raut also chose to add that everybody knows whose government is there in the state.

At the outset, he claimed that terrorists have got scared and law and order in the country has improved ever since the Narendra Modi government came to power.

Noting that the blast in Pune yesterday created panic, the Shiv Sena leader rued that the accused of West Bakery and Germany Bakery blasts or the killers of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar are yet to be arrested.

"Pune has once again become the target of terrorists," he said, adding three explosions had taken place in Pune earlier also.

A low-intensity blast set off by an IED planted in a motorcycle parked in front of a police station here yesterday left three injured, including a constable, even as police did not rule out the possibility of involvement of a terror group in the incident.

In another Zero Hour mention, senior Congress leader Karan Singh expressed concern over growing population of the country and rued that population stabilisation appears to have been dropped from the government agenda as it figured neither in the speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Reminding the members that today is World Population Day, he said Rajya Sabha should have had half-an-hour debate on it.