BJP asks UPA to firm up strategy to tackle Naxals

Advocating full-fledged anti-naxal operations in affected states, the BJP today asked the Centre to firm up strategies to deal with the rebels and said the Opposition would extend full cooperation.

"Let the UPA firm up its plans to deal with Naxals across the country. The BJP is always there to extend all support," party spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy said here.

Claiming that Naxals could be tackled only by launching full-fledged operations in affected states, he said a section of Congress-led UPA were trying to "downplay the menace by linking its spread to poverty and lack of development".

"The UPA government should start full-fledged offensive against them without thinking of vote bank politics," he said.