The Election Campaigning

A few days back, I was switching through the new channels when I suddenly stopped at this channel that was airing an election campaign speech from the honorable Congress Chairman - Ms. Sonia Gandhi.

An excerpt of what she said -
"Terrorists are terrorists. They have only one religion to spread terror in society,'' she said. "We consider it (terrorism) a national issue and want to take all communities with us to address the problem. We want everybody's support,'' she said at her first public appearance to seek another term for the Congress in Delhi.
"Those who create fear in the name of religion or caste may come to power for some days. But they cannot escape the responsibility of plunging the future of the country into darkness,'' she told the enthusiastic crowd in her Hindi speech.

I just cannot resist from calling her a genuine politician. She is the leader of the same party who in the past few days took a dig at the accused who were all Hindus, in the Malegaon blasts. This very genuine Congress leader never spoke about terrorists ans terrorism till about a few days back. Today because it is elections, she thought that she should touch the most sensitive nerve in the voting banks. In the last part of the speech ,what confused me was the 'Those who'. Who exactly was she referring to - Was it the BJP or, was it the SIMI who was working with the intention of spreading terror in India?

These power thirsty politician are funny in their election campaign speeches. They forget about everything else and are sure to hit the vote bank where it hurts the most.

I am at least happy with Ms. Sonia Gandhi, that she is considering 'terrorism' a national issue. We never knew that the Congress Party ever considered it so, at least from what we have been seeing. A statistics of the blasts in the past few years when the Congress has come to power is as mentioned below;

Year 2005 - 1 blast:

October 29, 2005: Sarojininagar blasts: 61 people were killed in three separate blasts at Sarojini market in New Delhi.

Year 2006 - 3 blasts:

March 7, 2006: Varanasi blasts: 21 persons lost their lives following three blasts

July 11, 2006: Mumbai train blasts: 7 deadly blasts on local trains in which 209 people lost their lives.

September 8, 2006: Malegaon blasts: Two blasts killed 40.

Year 2007 - 4 blasts:

February 19, 2007: Samjhauta Express blasts: 66 persons killed in two blasts on Indo-Pak Samjhauta Express train.

May 18, 2007: Mecca Masjid blasts: 9 persons were killed in a blast at the Mecca Masjid at Hyderabad. 5 persons were killed in police firing which ensued later.

August 25, 2007: Hyderabad twin blasts: 42 persons lost their lives in twin blasts at Lumbini Park and Gokul chaat.

October 11, 2007: Ajmer blasts: Blast at Ajmer dargah kills two

Year 2008 - 9 blasts:

May 13, 2008: Jaipur blasts: Serial blasts at Pink city claims 68 lives.

July 16 2008, Ahmedabad blasts: 57 dead in serial blasts in Ahmedabad.

July 25, 2008: Bangalore blasts: One person dies in Bengaluru serial blasts.

September 13, 2008, New Delhi blasts: Blasts at New Delhi claims 26 lives.

September 27, 2008, Delhi blasts: terror strikes Delhi again in which 3 people were killed.

September 29, 2008, Modasa blast: One killed in blast at Modasa in Gujarat.

September 29, 2008, Malegaon blasts: Five persons killed after bomb placed on a motor bike went off.

October 21, 2008, Imphal blasts: 17 killed in blast near Manipur police commando complex.

October 30, 2008, Assam blasts: Eleven blasts kill over 40 persons in Assam.

The statistics is for anybody to understand about the seriousness of Congress's approach towards "Terrorism" as a National Issue.