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...defiance in the face of those who had come to kill, and also their anger at the authorities for failing to protect their city and anger at the leaders seeking political advantage from the tragedy. Amid the mounting outrage at the authorities, the central government's Home Minister, Shivraj Patil - already under pressure in the wake of previous attacks - resigned, claiming moral responsibility for the attacks...
...Sunday's resignation by Home Minister Shivraj Patil - who was already under pressure over the series of bombings that hit India's cities earlier this year - was followed by that of R.R. Patil, Home Minister of Maharasthra, the state of which Mumbai is the capital. R.R. Patil had been widely denounced for telling reporters on Saturday that the attacks were a "small incident that could happen in big cities." The state's Chief Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, was next in the firing line, lambasted on television and even by fellow politicians for insensitivity after he was seen blithely touring the burned...
...party now would augur poorly for general elections, to be held next May. "We may take a beating," says Congress Member of Parliament Milind Deora, who represents the affluent South Mumbai constituency, which bore the brunt of the terrorist attacks last week. The ruling party replaced outgoing Home Minister Patil with the much-respected Finance Minister P. Chidambaran. But like the government's proposal on Monday to recruit 500 new commandos to an élite counterterrorism unit, the reshuffle seems a little too late...
...There's no denying the insurgency has prospered in areas of official neglect. In a paper he presented to Parliament two years ago, Home Minister Shivraj Patil said that "Naxalites operate in [a] vacuum created by [an] absence of administrative and political institutions." The Naxalites, Patil said, "take advantage of the disenchantment prevalent among the exploited segments of the population" to "offer an alternative system of governance which promises emancipation ... through the barrel...
...country is so big that even if we have the information that something is planned, we do not know where or when.' SHIVRAJ PATIL VINEET, Home Minister of India, on the Aug. 25 bombings in Hyderabad that killed 42 people. Indian intelligence had learned of plans for an attack in the southern city, but could not determine the targets...