The blast at Chishti Dargah in Ajmer was a wake-up call for the intelligence agencies that terrorist are spreading their wings.

However, the blasts at Jaipur have shown that the authorities were yet again caught napping. Although Rajasthan has not been on the terrorists’ radar till now, Jaipur being an international tourist city should have been prepared for such an event. Also as the IPL matches are going on in the city, extra security measures should have been put in place.

As usual the state and the centre will play politics and blame each other. Some reports suggest that there was intelligence input about this attack. Well, if this is true, obviously the authorities did not make any use of the information. Even if a general alert had been sounded, people would have become cautious about their surroundings and perhaps the incident could have been prevented.

Weather it be the serial blasts in Mumbai trains or the attack in Jaipur, terrorists have proved that they can strike at will anywhere they want.

We should have a single nationwide intelligence network and they should work in co-ordination with police departments of all the states as well as the border security force (BSF) and the army.

The complaisant “chalta hai” attitude is solely to blame for such incidents. Unless each one of us, and specially the police officials, start believing that “we are going to be the next target” we will never be able to beat the terrorists.

Jaipur Bomb Blasts in pictures

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