As the chorus for tough anti-terror law increased, former President APJ Abdul Kalam also argued for stringent legislative deterrence to deal with the scourge. Kalam said the country needed to enact a law, which would provide stringent punishment to the culprits and also favoured introduction of citizen's identity card.
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"I have said we need to enact a law which would provide stringent punishment and ensure justice," Kalam said while expressing his views on serial blasts in the national Capital on Saturday evening. He also said that national citizen identity cards should be issued as "it is very important."
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Meanwhile, PTI quoting Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said, "I have no role in police or security management of the city. (But) I am voicing concerns of people that a tougher law which is a deterrent (should be there)." Dikshit said she was voicing concerns of the people in this regard as she has "no role" in police or security management of the city.
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Patil is also under pressure from the highest level in the UPA Government to approve the request from State Government to bring in their own anti-terror laws. National Security Advisor NK Narayanan is understood to have favoured Central assent to the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime Bill, 2003. Naryanan has written a letter to Patil justifying the requirement of the State-specific terror law.
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The Gujarat Bill is pending with the Centre for the past four years and the Home Ministry has refused to blink despite the fact that Chief Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly urged both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil to look into the matter. The subject was discussed even during the last month's meeting between the Prime Minister and Modi.
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Narayanan's letter to Patil comes close on the heels of the Home Ministry telling the Gujarat High Court it would not approve of the anti-terror law on the lines of Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), which was repealed by the Centre.
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The affidavit says, "It would not be in consonance with the policy of the Central Government, which led to the repeal of POTA, to recommend the passing of any such legislation that contains similar provisions."
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