Punjab Congress Legislature Party leader Charanjit Singh Channi today blamed intelligence failure for terrorist attack on strategic airbase at Pathankot and accused Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal of not learning any lessons from Dinanagar attack in the same area six months ago.
He alleged that no serious notice was taken after a Superintendent of Police level officer was waylaid and his vehicle with blue beacon was snatchedby the terrorists in army fatigue.
Channi expressed surprise that Punjab Police failed to actby nabbing the terrorists after this serious incidents 24 hours before the attack and said it should also share the blame.
Lashing out at Sukhbir, who also holds the home department, for not learning any lessons from Dinanagar attack in Pathankot six months ago, he said, "at that time, it was Dinanagar police station that was attacked and this time, a strategic airbase had been targeted."
He also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he used to boast of his 56-inch chest before Lok Sabha elections and blamed the UPA government for such attacks from across the border.
Pointing out that terrorists had struck within days after Modi's high level drama of making unscheduled stop at Lahore to wish his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on his birthday, he said that while Modi was sharing cake with Sharif, terroristswere planning to launch attack on India from that soil.
The CLP leader said this was equally a failure of the central intelligence agencies which had failed to notice movement of terrorists from across the border despite it being sealed.
He praised the bravery shown by the security forces and paid tributes to the two security personnel who sacrificed their lives while fighting to repel the attack.
He also questioned the NDA government now what was the strategy to stop such attacks.
