New Delhi: Claiming that Congress and other parties were opposing Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) "purely for the sake of vote bank politics", the BJP today (Dec 17, 2003) accused them of not being concerned about unity, sovereignty and integrity of the nation.

"Despite Supreme Court verdict supporting POTA, Congress and other Opposition parties are demanding repeal of the legislation. They are more interested in vote bank politics and not concerned about unity, sovereignty and integrity of the nation," party spokesman V K Malhotra said.

POTA was needed to fight the menace of terrorism since the existing laws were not sufficient to tackle this problem, which has spread all over the world, he said.

While on one hand Congress speaks of Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya issue, on the other it opposes verdicts given in favour of Uniform Civil Code, issue of saffronisation of education and now POTA, Malhotra said.

"Whatever doesn't suit the party, it opposes such issues lock, stock and barrel," he said.

PTI