The errors in the list of India's “most wanted” sent to Pakistan soon after the killing of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden were on Thursday cited by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to demand the resignation of Home Minister P. Chidambaram and to say that the government did not seem serious about handling terrorism.
After it became apparent that a second name on the “most wanted” list was currently lodged in Mumbai's Arthur Jail, BJP president Nitin Gadkari demanded the resignation of the Home Minister while Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said it was the height of incompetence that the government had not bothered to check and double-check the list before sending it to Pakistan. On top of this, the party cited the goof-up by the Central Bureau of Investigation when its team landed in Denmark for the extradition of Kim Davey — wanted in the Purulia arms dropping case — without a proper warrant.
‘Opportunity wasted'
The view in the party is that Pakistan found itself in a tight spot after bin Laden was found to have been living in Abbottabad in a safe house for the last several years. Instead of building on this, the government had lost the opportunity and shown its own information to be less than credible.
