shiv wrote:lakshmikanth wrote:
Now that I think of it, that could be a convenient position for a "secular" to take, since if an Islamic connection is indeed proven the secular worthies can claim plausible deniablity ("Police messed up the investigation, how can we now conclusively prove it was IM, and such" ).
Precisely.
For a change the discussion on TV last night followed a route that pointed out how investigative agencies are either being used by politicians for election purposes, or investigations are being communalized. Examples were given of Dogvijay Singh speaking up for a terrorist and allowing a police officer to be killed in the Badla encounter, and the recent blaming of Hindu terrorism for no reason at all.
Actually its is not just congress - the state governments too and the BJP are guilty of not allowing investigative agencies and a national level anti-terror apparatus to work.
For the last two days I was surprised by an unusual level of security in Bangalore over and beyond what would be expected for 'bandh"days. I now realize that there was a countrywide alert. In fact There were terror alerts for cities three days ago, two days ago , and yesterday - the day of the blasts. But because the states have put a hold on a national terror authority fearing that state level control over political intel and police will be lost. The corrupt ba$tards. A central terror warning need not be acted upon by a state. it is possible that Andhra Pradesh did not act upon the intel in a way that could have thwarted the terror strike. But it's not just Congress. State governments want control over the police especially at election time. So the rot is not just Congress. I say this because this is regularly missed on BRF. Many seem to think that removing Congress will do the trick. It will not. The rot is widespread.
Shivji,
There are so many things are happening in AP at the same time.
For a moment let us assume these blasts did not happen.
In such scenario, the TRS planned and announced to start a "Sadak Bandh" (closed down roads) especially the routes that connect T-Area with rest of Andhra Pradesh,
Starting today.And this specific road is the national highway to Vijayawada, a major commercial and public transport route. All the busses that connect coastal Andhra must go thru this road.
And there is the continuous threat to KKR, the INC CM, from internal enemies and their vicious plans.
TDP head CBN as well as YSRCP leader Sharmila (YSJ's sister) are on Padayatra.
Congress govt just announced village panchayat elections to be held in 90days.
Asaduddin Owaisi got his bail just a couple of days ago and KKR has to put focus on this Owaisi brothers to find out what their next steps are.
And so on...
All these distractions take most of the intelligence resources the state govt has at its disposal. No wonder AP govt cannot act on anything since 2009. Congress leadership kept this state in suspended animation as it is not able to find a correct replacement for YSR, who can give confidence of political fortunes, provide ~10k crore funds every year, continue the EJ project and so on...
This will continue until 2014/15, by which I hope will decide the following issues...
1. T-state or not
2. CBN or not
3. YSRCP or not
4. TRS or not
We will reach a new equilibrium after 2015 so the key actors get their final positions (power/merging/death) and the state gets to chart in a new path, whatever that may be. It could be a path that makes Hyd a UT, thus pushing it strongly into MIM fold due to coalition politics.
