States are responsible for growing Naxal-related incidents and there is no justification in Home Minister P Chidambaram seking to resign after the Dantewada attack, a senior Union cabinet minister today said.
"Chidambaram sought to resign owning moral responsibility for the Dantewada incident...But there is no justification for it as states have to rein in the growing Naxal-related incidents," Union Food Processing Minister Subodh Kant Sahay told reporters here.
He said states should realise the fact that growth of Naxalites is because of the existing socio-economic problems. "States have failed to achieve the desired development and unless these problems are properly addressed, the Maoists won't be uprooted," he said.
Sahay said there should be proper coordination between the state and the central force personnel for effective operations against Maoists.
"The non-cooperation of the states with the Centre is evident from the absence of chief Ministers of Bihar and Jharkhand at a crucial meeting called by Chidambaram in Kolkata recently," Sahay said.
Chidambaram had offered to quit from the government in the wake of the deadliest attack by Naxals in Chhattisgarh in which 76 security personnel were killed. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, however, rejected his resignation letter.