New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today condemned the blast in South Delhi which left one person dead and several injured.
Singh expressed shock and grief over the incident, PMO sources said. They said National Security Adviser M K Narayanan was in touch with authorities and was monitoring the situation.
President Pratibha Patil also expressed concern over "repeated" blasts in the city and conveyed condolences to the bereaved family members of the 13-year old boy who died in the blast.
"The President is deeply concerned about the repeated blasts in the national capital," Rashtrapati Bhavan
spokesperson said.
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil also expressed concern over the blast and said "I convey my condolences to the family of the child, killed in today's blast in Delhi and pray for speedy recovery of the injured.
"Hospital authorities have been asked to provide all facilities for their treatment," he said.
Appealing to Delhi people to remain clam, Patil said the Government has taken a series of measures recently to beef up security in Delhi. "Whatever more is required to be done will be done
expeditiously," he said.
Poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar who was in the CNN-IBN studios strongly condemned the blast and has appealed to the public not to let the terrorists win
"We have to understand why these blasts are happening all over India? What are these terrorists trying to achieve? They are trying to damage the secular fabric of the country. They want to destroy unity and create chaos we can defeat them by not letting this happen," he said.
A 13-year-old boy was killed and nearly two dozen people were injured today when a bomb exploded in south Delhi, a fortnight after the national capital was rocked by serial blasts.
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