New Delhi, Oct. 28: The state police today drew flak from a section of the Union home ministry for its alleged failure to prevent the terror attack at Gandhi Maidan in Patna — the venue of the BJP’s Hunkar Rally on Sunday — despite having intelligence inputs.

Basic security drills in a scenario of a terror threat to a public programme were apparently not carried out, nor were threat sources tracked, a source in the Union home ministry told The Telegraph.

Four days before Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi addressed the BJP rally, a meeting of the intelligence and senior police officers from Bihar and Gujarat was conducted on October 23 to assess the security situation in the wake of threats to Modi from terrorist outfits. “Information was exchanged that day. Gujarat police were cheesed off with the arrangements,” said the source.

The alleged failures and lapses would be part of the security review meet to be chaired by Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in Patna tomorrow. He would also meet chief minister Nitish Kumar and top state officials.

“The Government of India has provided full protection to him (Modi). I shall go to Patna tomorrow to review the situation there and then brief the media about the progress of our probe,” Shinde told reporters today.

A central agency official said it was “unlikely” that the state police were unaware of the presence of Indian Mujahideen (IM) men in Bihar or Patna. “Yet they failed to act. It is not possible that there was no intelligence input with the local police after the arrest of key IM man Yasin Bhatkal,” a Union home ministry official said.