What does the attack on Ayodhya signify?
Before anything else, every concerned Indian should bow to the personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force and the Uttar Pradesh police for killing the five terrorists (one is supposed to have blown himself up) who were out to wreck India’s communal harmony by targeting the sensitive Ram Janambhoomi and eventually affect its march towards faster economic development. As Congress president Sonia Gandhi put it, ‘it was an attack on the prestige of India’. The attack is a wake-up call for the Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance government. The critics will have strong justification when they claim the much-celebrated India-Pakistan peace process has not helped in curbing threats of jihadi terrorism in India. But nevertheless, it also proves that there are more reasons to keep up the peace process with better tact and strategy. The inbuilt expectation from the India-Pakistan peace process was that it would stopjihadi or any kind of terrorismfrom across theWestern border into I
