Delhi blast: Leads promising but not conclusive, says HM

Taking on the Opposition in the strongest possible way, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday rubbished the former's charge that there had once again been an intelligence failure on the part of the UPA government in preventing a tragedy like the blast outside the Delhi High Court premises on Wednesday.

The explosion claimed 13 lives and injured over 70.

Reacting to the Opposition's view that the UPA government was at “war with itself”, Chidambaram, hitting back at the BJP, and specifically Leader of Oppositions Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitely, said the government was following all possible leads.

He described these leads as “promising but not conclusive”, and added that chances of such terror strikes happening were very high as India was located in a troubled neighbourhood.

He rubbished Jaitely charge on the government being negligent on “unsolved cases” of terror, adding that some of these unsolved cases had originated in BJP-ruled states.