Vote bank politics has killed fight against terror: Bitta
New Delhi | Wednesday, Dec 30 2009 IST
 

All-India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) Chairman M S Bitta today derided all the major political parties for diluting the fight against terrorism by batting for vote bank politics.

Speaking at a gathering of the families of Kashmir terrorism and Delhi blasts victims to give a call for global peace ahead of the new year 2010 at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial Rajghat here, Mr Bitta said, ''No government has ever taken any action against terrorism. Terrorists should be firmly dealt with. Every political party is bothered about vote bank. If Afzal is hanged, some party worries about the loss of Muslim votes. Vote bank politics has virtually killed the fight against terrorism.'' He opined that all parties should come together and develop a definite policy to fight terrorism. Even the UNO should come out with some policy against terrorism.

However, Mr Bitta also said in the present time, poverty was the biggest terrorism in this country. ''Building roads and bridges alone does not imply development. Look at the common man.

There is abject poverty. Political terrorism is another form of terror.'' Ms Rukhsana Kauser, the 20-year-old housewife who axed to death an armed Lashkar-e-Toiba commander in September in Kashmir, was also present on the occasion.

Mr Bitta informed mediapersons that she had been provided a job along with a reward of Rs 2.5 lakh by the government.

Ms Kauser said, ''Pakistanis creating terror in India by taking lives of somebody's parents is not right.'' In the September incident, Ms Kauser along with her 18-year-old brother, had also snatched guns and opened fire on two militants, wounding one and forcing them to flee.

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