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Order CBI probe into Coimbatore blasts or face dismissal, BJP Tamil Nadu unit tells CM

The Bharatiya Janata Party's Tamil Nadu unit will resort to agitations, demanding dismissal of the M Karunanidhi government, if it failed to recommend a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the February 14 serial bomb blasts in Coimbatore, by the end of October.

Talking to the media today, party Tamil Nadu unit president K N Lakshmanan alleged that extremists from Pondicherry, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, besides the Inter-Service Intelligence of Pakistan were involved in the blasts, in which 60 people were killed. Only a CBI probe could bring out the truth, he averred.

Alleging that extremists were taking shelter in the Karaikal region of Pondicherry and Chief Minister R V Janakiraman failed to take any action to flush them out, he also demanded the dismissal of the DMK-led coalition government in the Union territory.

Lakshmanan also demanded that an inquiry commission, similar to the Jain Commission, be set up to probe the conspiracy behind the attempts to assassinate senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Home Minister Lal Kishinchand Advani.

When he had called on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee two months back to demand that the Centre order a CBI probe, the latter informed him that the Centre could not order such an investigation without a request from the state government and advised him to create public opinion in this regard. Following this, the party decided to launch a signature campaign.

UNI

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