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BJP accuses Andhra govt of going easy on ISI operatives

BJP accuses Andhra govt of going easy on ISI operatives

Author: M K Tayal
Publication: Mid-Day
Date: January 12, 2004

The Andhra Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has directly blamed its National Democratic Alliance partner at the Centre and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's government for going "soft" on Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operatives in Hyderabad.

According to the BJP, the Naidu government has deliberately downplayed ISI-related incidents in its anxiety to demonstrate that everything was normal in the state.

The main grouse of the BJP is that the 30 MLAs of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) "are feared more than the ministers of the state government" and the state government does not deal seriously enough with incidents in which ISI operatives have a hand.

The BJP, in a publication says, ISI activities in and around Hyderabad and places in the region are second only to Jammu and Kashmir.

The BJP squarely blames the MIM for communally inciting the Muslims, which the ISI finds easy to cash in on.

In 2003, nearly 15 ISI operatives were involved in anti-national activities. Of thee, Asgar Ali of Hyderabad was involved in the Haren Pandya assassination and Mohammad Shafi fired at VHP leader Jagdish Tiwari in Ahmedabad. In addition, Zubair Shareef and Aziz Hussain, arrested in April were ISI operatives trained in Pakistan.

The BJP also alleges that the state government did not seriously pursue a raid on a Balaji temple by jehadis with rifles on January 16, 2003.

In 2002, the LeT was involved in six activities which include the Bangalore Express sabotage on December 12, 2002 at Pendekal which killed 19 and injured 87.

The BJP has accused the state government of not pursuing investigations seriously.

"The region has a large concentration of Muslims who were communally incited due to MIM politics. Naturally, the ISI anticipates that it would not be difficult to find any number of youth willing to act on its behalf," says the BJP's report on ISI in Andhra Pradesh.

The BJP ha also said that Hyderabadi youth are being lured y the ISI in Saudi Arabia when they go to that region seeking jobs.

Meanwhile, according to a special branch police official, there are around 360 operatives in the region.

But he said the AP government was countering it effectively.
 


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