Surjeet blames foreign powers for Coimbatore blasts
Communist Party of India-Marxist general
secretary Harkishen Singh Surjeet on Monday charged the 'imperialist'
countries with trying to destabilise India
through bomb blasts with the help of agencies
like Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence.
He told newsmen in Madurai that the evil designs
of foreign powers
should not succeed, and appealed to
the Opposition parties not
to take advantage of the present
situation, to protect democracy.
"This is the time for unity to fight back
terrorism," he said.
The serial bomb blasts in Coimbatore was not an isolated
incident, he said. Such attempts were being made in
North-Eastern states like Assam.
Surjeet declined to comment on Congress
president Sitaram Kesri's reported remark blaming the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
for the blasts.
"Some foreign powers are attempting to
disrupt
the electoral process in the state," he said.
Asked whether intelligence agencies had failed
to foresee
the
trouble in the country, he said there was
some 'lacunae'. The sleuths, he added, were recruited by the Congress.
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