Raipur: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussein on Tuesday charged that the Congress-led central government was "shying away" from taking action against the "terrorist" Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) for its alleged involvement in the Mumbai blasts.
"SIMI is a terrorist outfit, it advocates militancy. The Central Government must deal with it with an iron hand," Hussein said on Tuesday.
"Because of its anti-India activities and its fundamental concept, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had banned it, but now the Congress government at the centre is shying away from taking strict action against SIMI for its involvement in the July 11 Mumbai serial blasts," the former minister in the NDA government said.
The SIMI, which was formed at Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh on April 25, 1977, has come under the scanner for its alleged role in the serial train bombings in India's financial capital that killed around 200 people and injured over 700.
Hussein, who was in Raipur for a party function, said the Indian government should order its security forces to cross the Line of Control border to dismantle the terror network in Pakistan, which he said has become a factory of terrorism.
"Pakistan is the biggest exporter of terrorism in the world, and the Indian government should build up diplomatic and political pressure on the world community to declare Pakistan a terrorist nation," Hussein added.
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