Sir — This refers to the article, “Red in the face, still backing the Maoists” (June 3) by Balbir Punj. Pro-poor activist Aruna Roy is not off the mark when she says that the present Congress-led UPA Government is pro-rich, but she cannot exclude the Congress president Sonia Gandhi from it. Isn’t it a fact that people close to her and many in the party have enriched themselves at the cost of the nationIJ
Sadly, the nation’s security is not even on the radar as far as the country’s ‘first family’ is concerned. This is clear from the fact that a large section of the all-powerful Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council is taken in by the justifications Maoists advance for their ruthless attacks. In such a circumstance, how can India expect any security from the Maoist threatIJ
After all, the Union Government is led by the same party that has also propped up the NAC. One is forced to believe that perhaps the nation’s security forces exist only to provide security to the powers-that-be, even at the cost of the people.