Bombay blast

Sir, - Apart from church blasts, there is one more unnecessary and avoidable blast created in Bombay in the form of arresting the Shiva Sena chief, Mr. Bal Thackeray, just to embarrass the NDA Government at the Centre and also satisfy some segments for an imaginary political gain.

The case in point is an older one and revival of this after seven long years is an irresponsible act.

The Bombay episode has only helped in creating a lot of tension among the public, with costly damage to the Assembly house which has to be repaired out of the taxpayers money, huge expenditure for employing security forces, unnecessary closure of many establishments and schools, a sudden plunge in stock market prices with long term blow to government secured investments like Unit Trust Scheme which is run purely on savings from the hard earned salaried class, etc. The ruling politicians should realise that their first priority should be the growth and welfare of people and not their political play, like the Thackeray episode.

V. S. Ganeshan,

Bangalore

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