New Delhi: The financial capital of the country, Mumbai has been rocked by a series of blasts on Tuesday evening. According to the latest report 80 people have been killed and 300 people have been injured.
Kalam calls Mumbai and Srinagar blasts inhuman
President A P J Abdul Kalam has strongly condemned the blasts in some local trains in Mumbai and grenade attack on tourists in Srinagar on Tuesday.
Dr Kalam said such inhuman acts are condemnable outright and those responsible for the crimes should be brought to book at the earliest.
Dr Kalam has appealed to the people to maintain calm and peace and assist the administration in providing relief to the affected persons.
The President is sure that the state governments will provide all possible relief to the victims. He has expressed sympathies with the bereaved families and wished the injured speedy recovery.
Sonia condemns Mumbai blasts as dastardly
Condemning as dastardly and inhuman the serial blasts in Mumbai, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday asked the Maharashtra Government to apprehend the culprits behind the attacks immediately.
Gandhi, who is also UPA Chairperson, spoke to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and asked them to tighten security measures and ensure maintenance of peace and harmony.
She also called for undertaking immediate relief measures.
Expressing deep grief and shock over the blasts, she appealed to people all over the country to "collectively isolate such elements from society".
Shivraj Patil and Lalu Prasad will visit Mumbai
Shivraj Patil also deplored the acts, saying the Government will take all possible measures to ensure law and order in the wake of the serial blasts and appealed to the people to maintain calm.
Describing the blasts in Mumbai as ‘tragic and dastardly’, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad assured that his ministry would launch all possible relief operations to mitigate the sufferings of the victims.
Patil and Prasad will also be leaving for Mumbai on Tuesday night along with senior officials for a spot inspection of the situation.
Bombings result of UPA's soft anti-terror policy: BJP
The BJP on Tuesday blamed the ruling UPA government's ‘soft approach’ on terrorism for the serial bombings in Mumbai and Srinagar.
BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad, who condemned the string of bomb attacks in Mumbai and Srinagar, said former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, party chief Rajnath Singh and senior party leader L K Advani have appealed for calm.
"The BJP leadership condemns these blasts in the strongest terms," he said.
Prasad, whose party had opposed the repeal of POTA, however, insisted that terror attacks have increased in the country over the past two years.
"There has been a rise in terror attacks under the UPA because it’s soft on terrorism. Initiatives against terrorism have been traded for votes and the message has been very clear to terrorists and their patrons," Prasad added.
Asking the people to maintain peace and calm in the face of grave provocations, on behalf of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Leader of Opposition L K Advani and BJP President Rajnath Singh, party Spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the root of the problem was the "kid glove handling" of the terrorist menace by the UPA constituents for the sake of vote bank politics.
Describing the serial blasts as shocking, Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray blamed the Maharashtra Government's inefficiency for the complete deterioration of law and order.
"Home Minister R R Patil and Revenue Minister Narayan Rane should now answer who is behind the bomb blasts," Thackeray alleged, referring to the duo's attempts to lay the blame on the desecration of his mother Meena Tai Thackeray's statue on Sunday.
"The vandalisation was the handiwork of fanatics. Will they now claim that the Sena has engineered the blasts," he asked.
Apex industry chamber CII expressed shock at the blasts and hoped that calm and peace will prevail over the city.
CII said it was 'shocked and grieved at the bomb blasts'. "We pray for calm and peace and hope that the perpetrators will be brought to book," the chamber said.
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