Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has alleged that terrorism had increased during the rule of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and blamed the National Democratic Alliance government for compromising with the menace.
Singh was addressing a public meeting organised by the district Congress committee on Wednesday night in Garha area.
He claimed terrorism was under control during the earlier Congress regimes. The Congress had sacrificed its two leaders Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi for it, while the Vajpayee government had "compromised with terrorism" and the jailed terrorist Azhar Mahmood was flown to Kandahar with the then External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh to be freed on the foreign soil, Singh said.
Every time after a terrorist strike, including the attacks on the Jammu and Kashmir assembly, the Parliament, Akshardham and Raghunath temples, the prime minister merely says "we shall wage a final battle", Singh said, wondering when this would happen.
He recalled that the late prime minister Indira Gandhi fought such a battle [referring to the 1971 Indo-Pak war] when she had threatened the very existence of Pakistan.