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Monday, Jul 11, 2005

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Disappointing

The BJP is clearly politicising the Ayodhya attack. Terrorist attacks can take place anytime, anywhere.

Alekhya Mandadi,
Tirupati, A.P.

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Those who thought the BJP was a party with a difference are disappointed. How does it differ from other parties when it indulges in violence and damages public property, resorts to disruption of utility services, and organises bandhs?

K.M. Shah,
Bangalore

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It is difficult to predict terror attacks. Branding them intelligence failure is outrageous. Fidayeen attacks are very tough to counter and the CRPF jawans deserve accolades.

Diksha Kaustubhi,
New Delhi

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Instead of supporting the idea of standing together as a country, the Sangh Parivar has made callous and irresponsible statements and tried to further divisive tendencies.

Vasundhara Sirnate,
Berkeley, California

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If the unsuccessful attack has hurt Hindu sentiments as the BJP leaders claim, they can imagine what Muslims would have gone through when the Babri Masjid was razed to the ground.

Sarfaraz Khalid,
Aligarh, U.P.

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The Sangh Parivar sowed the wind when it demolished the Babri mosque. The nation has ever since been reaping the whirlwind — terrorist strikes on Parliament, Akshardham, and now Ayodhya. The Blair-Bush combine sowed the wind in Iraq; they are now reaping the whirlwind.

N. Balasubramanyan,
Tiruchi, T.N.

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The conclusion in the article "A befitting reply to the Ayodhya outrage" (July 7) that a united and secular state order is the best answer to the jihadis, must be welcomed by all. But what about the people with nefarious designs who masquerade as leaders, silently and surely working towards ethnic cleansing? They are as dangerous as the gun-wielding jihadis.

B.R. Kumar,
Chennai

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The article seems to have left out some references — compromise with terror started with the setting free of terrorists to secure the release of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed (1989), and continued during the Congress regime when the Narasimha Rao Government offered safe passage to Pakistan to terrorists threatening to blow up the Hazratbal shrine. This was much before December 1999 and Kandahar. Journalists too need to be more balanced and unbiased.

Brig. (retd.) V.R.P. Sarathy,
Chennai

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