Police unraveling the terror blasts in Varanasi have found striking parallels between this incident and that in Delhi last October. The bombs were placed in pressure cookers and left in a crowded place to go off one after another. The Delhi police shot down two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists; one of them has been identified as a criminal involved in many terror attacks. Varanasi police released sketches of two terrorists who allegedly left behind a pressure cooker that was later defused by bomb experts. Eyewitnesses say that the terrorists were well dressed, appeared well educated, and not local. Intelligence sources in Delhi say that the State Government’s lack of police presence in sensitive areas and “actionable intelligence” was the reasons for the attack. Chief Minister Maulayam Singh Yadav faced black flags and in some cases stones when he went to visit the wounded. An obviously shaken Yadav feebly asked people not to extract political mileage from the incident. Opposition parties Bharatiya Janata Party and Bahujan Samaj Party were less charitable—leaders of both parties castigated Yadav unstintingly for incompetence, lack of planning, and lackadaisical attitude even after intelligence from the Ayodhya incident showed LeT’s plans to attack temples and economic targets.