Click to play videoNew Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidmabaram on Saturday confirmed that he indeed offered to resign in the wake of the Dantewada massacre, but also added that it was now a closed chapter.
"CRPF is under my charge. The tragedy happened under my watch. Therefore I said the buck stops at my chair," said Chidambaram.
But that doesn't mean the Home Minister believes the buck stop at his desk alone.
"That does not mean that the state governments have no role, they have a role," he added.
But the chief ministers of Maoist-affected states with whom he needs to work closely with are not making his job easy. After West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, it is the turn of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to hit out at the Home Minister
Nitish suggested to Chidambaram that the Maoist menace demands a holistic policy.
"Too much talk is not good. Work has its own impact," said Nitish.
But as the blame game goes on, there is no let-up in Maoist violence. Now the bloodshed has shifted back to another theatre of war in West Bengal where two people were shot dead mercilessly in Jhargram as the Maoists suspected the duo to be police informers.
For the first time Chidambaram has admitted that he had resigned after the Dantewara massacre. But the fact remains that even the states are responsible and the Maoists are taking advantage of those shortcomings to persist with their campaign of violence.
(With inputs from Sougato Mukopadhyaya and Pratibha Parmeshwaran)
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