India, April 22 -- Senior BJP leader Madhav Bhandari on Monday alleged that the Congress and NCP, which were in power during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, played a part in the incident as the government was aware of the threat months in advance but failed to prevent it. Reacting to Bhandari's allegations, Ajit Pawar, while speaking in Pune on Monday, said, "There can be an inquiry in this matter, especially when we are in power at the Centre and in the state and police machinery is in your hands. Whoever is found involved can be punished."

Bhandari claimed that a high-level meeting was held on June 30, 2008, at the Mantralaya, chaired by the then chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and attended by then home minister R R Patil, senior Maha...