Advaniji condemns the serial bomb blasts in three crowded areas in Guwahati today afternoon

New Delhi : I strongly condemn the serial bomb blasts in three crowded areas in Guwahati today afternoon. Initial reports say that at least five persons have lost their lives and many more are injured. This latest act of terrorism comes two months after another round of serial bomb explosions had snuffed out the life of 88 people in Guwahati and two other cities of Assam.

It is a matter of concern that the blasts were set off shortly before the arrival of Union Home Minister Shri P. Chidambaram in the capital of Assam.

It is well known that terrorist acts in Assam are the handiwork of groups based in neighbouring Bangladesh. Therefore, the timing of today’s blasts is significant for another reason.

Only yesterday, the Prime Minister-elect of Bangladesh, Ms. Sheikh Hasina Wazed, who won an emphatic victory in the recently held parliamentary elections, had stated that her government would not allow terrorist groups to use the territory of Bangladesh to operate in India. I welcome this categoric statement of the new Prime Minister.   I suspect that those who are behind the latest bomb blasts are inimical to better relations between India and Bangladesh under the new dispensation in Dhaka.

I hope that the New Year would see a new era of cooperation between the governments of India and Bangladesh in eradicating terrorism and extremism from the region.