Why should PC's chair be safe: BJP

If cities are not safe, why should Chidambaram's chair be safe, asks BJP

New Delhi: A day after home minister P Chidambaram said all cities in India are vulnerable to terror attacks, the BJP slammed him saying the minister could not get away with this kind of an elusive remark. The party asked: Why should his chair be safe if he cannot ensure safety of Indians?
"If the home minister says all Indian cities are vulnerable then why should the HM remain secure in his chair?" asked BJP's chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad. The party also criticised the Centre for giving contradictory statements.
"The PM said the government would do everything in its power to prevent such attacks in future. On what basis is the PM making such claims when his own home minister openly conceded that all cities in India are vulnerable to attack. Are they on the same page?" Prasad asked.
All along there is a general dissatisfaction over the way Chidambaram handled the situation immediately after the Mumbai blasts.

In his first interaction with media after the terror strike, he went into technical details of when and where the blasts occurred, which was already known and could have been handled at the bureaucratic level. People were looking for reassurance which was not forthcoming from the HM and he failed to infuse confidence among people.
"When the HM is insecure, and has no satisfactory answers with regard to the attacks. He becomes technical," Prasad remarked.
The BJP also did not shy in expressing unhappiness over the claim made by both the PM and Chidambaram that there was no intelligence input. "If there was no prior intelligence alert, then the country is certainly entitled to know why there was no intelligence alert?" Prasad added.
The opposition also attacked the government for having failed in announcements made after 26/11 about upgradation of the anti-terror infrastructure such as National Counter Terrorism Centre and National Intelligence Grid.
"How many modules of the Indian Mujahideen and Simi have been destroyed in the last four years? When will Afzal Guru be hanged? Mr Prime Minister, is terrorism a simple law and order problem or an attack on India's sovereignty?" Prasad asked.