Centre's policy to combat Naxalism incongruous: BJP

BJP today slammed the government for adopting an "incongruous" policy on the fight against Naxalism and charged that it has tried to give terrorism a communal colour for appeasement politics and targeting political opponents.
The BJP National Executive, which is meeting here for a two-day conclave, today passed a resolution on 'Security and Self-respect' where the party expressed its concerns on issues ranging from foreign policy and treatment meted out to the Italian marines in the fishermen killing case to growing Naxalism and terrorism in the country.
The right-wing party vehemently defended its government in Chhattisgarh on the May 25 ambush on Congress leaders of the state by Maoists in which over a dozen people were killed.

BJP said the Raman Singh government in the state has put in place a comprehensive plan to fight Naxal violence.
It charged the Congress of speaking in a confusing tone on the issue.
"The incongruity in the Congress' policy of dealing with Naxalism on one hand whilst, and on the other, particularly during elections, doing deals with them, comes to the surface periodically. Such reports have emerged from Andhra Pradesh and from Chhattisgarh," the resolution said.
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters in the May 25 violence, for which some sections of the Congress have accused the state government of being responsible, preliminary reports emanating from the National Investigative Agency (NIA) have pointed a finger of suspicion on a few Congressmen as having maintained links with Maoists even as being a part of the targeted convoy.

"The Congress owes an explanation on this," she said.