Gaya blasts: BJP turns on friend-turned-foe JDU

July 07, 2013 15:10

Senior BJP leader Sushil Modi condemned the terror attack on the world famous Mahabodhi temple and adjoining areas in Bodh Gaya today and assailed both central and state governments for their failure to provide adequate security to the Buddhist shrine.

The former Bihar deputy chief minister claimed that no measures were taken to prevent the attack despite intelligence tip-offs and said the Centre and the state governments cannot escape the responsibility for the nine low-intensity serial blasts.

"We have information that the intelligence and NIA officials had tipped off the state government about the likelihood of a terror attack on the Buddhist shrines in Bodh Gaya and held a meeting with the state officials to review the security situation at the terror targets.Yet no concrete steps were taken by the state government to improve the security deployment at the Buddhist temple town which led to the serial blasts this morning," he claimed.

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