The BJP today slammed the Maharashtra government for complete failure of security and intelligence network. The party said the authorities there have a lot to answer about the hooliganism at Azad Maidan in Mumbai. Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman demanded the arrest of those who took law into their
own hands in Mumbai yesterday. She said had intelligence been sufficient, such an incident could have been avoided as people came from all across armed with iron rods and hockey sticks.

Two persons were killed and 14 were injured when a

protest in Mumbai's Azad Maidan against Assam riots turned violent with demonstrators torching vehicles, including media vans.

After he took oath, Mukherjee was offered a 21-gun salute marking the assumption of office of the highest Constitutional post in the country. In his address, Mukherjee asserted that for the real development of the country, the poorest of the land must feel that they are part of the narrative of the rising India and poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India. He said the trickle-down theories did not address legitimate aspirations of the poor and those at the bottom must be lifted up for a better life.  Terming terrorism as the fourth world war that the international community is facing, Mukherjee said India had been on the frontlines of this war long before many others could recognise its consequences. He sounded firm in his opinion that those, who instigate violence and perpetuate hatred(cause to continue or prevail) need to understand the truth that few minutes of peace would achieve far more than many years of war. The new President reiterated that India would not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.  Calling corruption an evil that can depress the nation's mood and sap9अशक्त या दुर्बल होना0 its progress, Mukherjee affirmed that the greed of a few could not be allowed to hijack the progress of the nation.  He said the country had achieved much in the field of agriculture, industry and social infrastructure, but it was nothing compared to what India, led by the coming generations, would create in the decades ahead. Highlighting the importance of non-violence in nation building, Mukherjee said violence was external to human nature. Quoting Swami Vivekananda, he said India would rise not with the power of flesh but with the power of spirit.

Home Ministry says, terrorism in the hinterland and communal situation remained by and large under control in 2011-12, except for the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in July 2011 and bomb blast in Delhi High Court in September last year.

However, it says, Maoists violence, militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and insurgency in the Northeast continued to be the top areas of concern for the country's internal security with Left wing extremism claiming the most lives.

In its Annual Report, the Home Ministry said the North eastern region which has remained complex for quite some time because of diverse demands advocated by various militant outfits, has shown improvement in 2011.

It said the Government has adopted various counter terrorism strategies to neutralise the efforts and capabilities of militants to disturb peace in the country.