Sulking Congress MP from Mumbai northwest Gurudas Kamat has now trained his guns at the state government. Referring to the blasts in Mumbai, Mr Kamat said that the Maharashtra government had not learnt a lesson after 26/11 and ignored all the precautions that needed to be taken.
He added that it was his duty to point out the deficiencies in running of the state.
Mr Kamat, who came to Mumbai last night after his resignation from the Union Council of ministers, flayed the state government on their callous approach to terror.
“If 5,000 CCTV cameras would have been set up in different parts of Mumbai, last week’s bomb blasts at Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar and Dadar would not have taken place,” Mr Kamat said.
He further said that the government should have taken stringent measures to improve the security after the November 2008 terror strikes. But, the government had not learnt a lesson and that the precautionary steps were ignored.
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Karat blames state unit for poll debacle
AGE Correspondent
Kolkata
July 17: Pointing out that the Bengal party had lost “the real political orientation and class structure” CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday called for a “reform and reconstruction within the party” on the concluding day of the party’s state committee meeting at its state party headquarters at Alimuddin Street.
Significantly, Mr Karat has once again put the onus on “the state-related factors” in presence of former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee who still believes that the decision of the party central committee, effectively Mr Karat himself, of the withdrawal of support from the UPA government had become the nemesis for the party.
“The prolonged rule of the LF government for 34 years has led to an accumulation of various negative factors which have impelled the people to vote for change,” Mr Karat emphasised, adding there were “various shortcomings in the performance of the LF and organisational failures” had paved the way for the poll debacles.