PRAGOTI

Pragoti condemns these shameless attacks on innocent citizens and foreign tourists.

Pragoti condemns these shameless attacks on innocent citizens and foreign tourists.

Yet another dastardly terrorist attack on Mumbai has taken place. This time, it has featured terrorist firing in public places (the nerve centre - CST and other places in south Mumbai), hostage taking in big hotels such as the Taj and the Trident, and grenade attacks on security forces trying to salvage the situation. More than 100 people are reported to be killed and many others injured, as this set of attacks seem to have been methodically planned, calculated to destroy the amity in the city. This set of attacks follows incidents such as bomb blasts in select public places in the city in the near past- all prior attempts to destroy the harmony in the city and which were foiled by the collective endeavour of the citizens.

Pragoti condemns these shameless attacks on innocent citizens and foreign tourists and calls upon the authorities in charge of law and order to provide justice to the victims of these attacks. Pragoti demands an immediate and rigorous probe into how an attack of this dastardly nature was carried out impudently in a city which had already been provided terrorist attack alerts. It is time also to mobilise people against terrorists of all hues, break the backbone of their networks by co-ordinated intelligence action of the law and order agencies and by re-affirming the secular credentials of the nation-state.

In spite of repeated attacks in different parts of the country, the central government in its response so far has failed to address the basis of terrorism politically. Pragoti demands that the central government should recognize the political basis of the situation and act accordingly.

Pragoti calls upon the resilient people of Mumbai to once again defeat the move to destroy the secular fabric in the city. Pragoti also condoles the death of serving police officials who lost their lives in the line of duty- Anti-Terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare in particular.