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them or even challenged them. The people are understandably very much upset about this. This is the result of a demoralised force which is illequipped and ill trained to face such a situation.

The Central Government has admitted that with the deployment of army in Punjab, pressure in the neighbouring States has naturally increased. Haryana itself has more than 500 Km. long border with Punjab comprising six districts of Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hissar and Sirsa. We have a large Sikh population and people of different communities have always lived together in peace and harmony here. The situation is still very much retrievable because the ter- rorists do not have sympathisers here. They come and go at will because the people fear them and the State Police is not able to provide protection to the people.In fact many of the people killed or kidnapped have been sikhs. In these border areas people should be given special civil defence training. Licences for arms should be given much more liberally to the people for their self-defence.

As I said, the other day, while Punjab has about 400 companies of paramilitary forces, Haryana has only three, which I am sure you will agree is quite negligible. We should be given at least 10-15 more companies. If we do not have-enough CRPF companies, I think we can raise more. It will also provide more employment to the people. If we include the damage that has been done in terms of human loss and other property loss, it will be much less.

The Central Government should also give Rs. 30 crores more to us, as requested by our Government to protect the border areas. So that we can have more police stations, check-posts, vans, transmitters, etc, in these areas. It should also allow the State Government to raise more force which is better trained, and better equipped with better weaponry. This expenditure should be met by the Centre.

The army operations in Punjab alone will not yield any tangible results because

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most of the terrorists have already moved out to other States. There should be a concerted effort by all the affected States to combat the problem and the Central Government should act as the modal agency.

The Central Government should face to its responsibilities and as has been said by many hon. Members, the problem of terrorism should be treated as a national problem rather than an isolated one confined to the State of Punjab alone.

SHRI B.N. REDDY (Miryalguda): Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the very outset, I should say that the detoriation of the law and order situation is as a matter of fact a product of the ruling party, that is the Congress (1). It is the experience of our State of Andhra Pradesh that some of the Congress (1) ruling groups are in the habit of pursuing the politics of murder in order to keep themselves in power. In the game of politics in order to maintain power, they even go to the extent of using naxalites for this purpose. Many of our party leaders and also the Opposition leaders were murdered. Some of the leaders who were murdered were S/Shri Sundarbassayya and Narsayya.

Since 1983 thousands of our party leaders, and recently in the last year some nine leaders of Telugu Desam Party, in one district of Andhra Pradesh, were murdered. In this way, dozens of our workers and prominent party leaders were murdered since 1983.

During the last two years, nine Telugu Desam leaders in Nalgonda district were axed to death and eleven workers of CPI(M) and their leaders were murdered in the day light by their killer squads. To mention a few, a prominent worker of our Party Shri Ludaraiah, Sarpanch of Uppalancha was murdered in the broad day light. Another Sarpanch of Thakkelapady by name Shri Kishan was dragged out of the bus and was axed to death.

In the 1989 General Elections - it is a historical open secret- under the Leadership

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of Shri Chenna Reddy, Congress got the majority and that too with the help of naxalites. As a gesture, Shri Chenna Reddy, opened all the gates in the name of bringing the terrorist groups to the national mainstream. The history proved otherwise. They are utilising the offer of Shri Reddy and collected crores of rupees for getting arms.

They have entered the cities from the forest area and in a span of three years, thousands of killings not only of the Congress, but also of our party workers in Nalgonda and Warrangal have taken place. They have also killed the other opposition party leaders in the name of elimination of caste/class enemies. It also includes the recent murder of an ex-Minister. Shri Hygrivachari, a prominent leader of the Congress was killed in the city of Warrangal. In this way , now, the people's war group is actually ruling the northern part of Telengana.It is also a fact that some of the ruling party leaders are encouraging the killing squads to kill people, belonging to the Opposition. So, in this way, it has back-fired the Congress (1) ruled State.

There is a proverb in Telugu - Bhasmasura has them. The man who benefited from Brahma was finished off by Brahma himself . So, in this way, the Congress (1) Government's policies have backfired. Now, the entire State is under terrorists' rule. under the gun rule. This is the position.

Thank you.

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SHRI RAM NAGINA MISHRA (Padrauna): Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am thankful to you for giving me an opportunity to speak. We are discussing today in the highest forum of the country how terrorism can be checked. Some of my friends rightly said and I would also like to do some plain speaking on it, that if a leader of the stature of Indira Gandhi who was the Prime Minister of the country could not check it even after sacrificing her life, we should be ashamed of it.