In what is likely to anger Hindu groups, Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has accused country’s rightwing Hindu parties BJP and RSS of fomenting terrorism and conducting terror training’ camps in India.
New Delhi, Jan 21/Nationalturk- Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has accused country’s rightwing Hindu parties BJP and RSS of fomenting terrorism and conducting terror training’ camps in India.
“During investigations, it has been revealed that rightwing groups BJP and RSS are conducting terror training camps to spread terrorism in the country,” Shinde has said.
He said the two groups are involved in bomb attacks in Samjhauta Express (train between India and Pakistan), Makkah Masjid (mosque in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh) and a blast in Malegaon, Mumbai (Indian’s business capital).
68 persons, mostly Pakistanis, were killed when a bomb ripped through the Samjhauta Express, a twice-weekly train service connecting India, and Pakistan midnight on 18 February 2007 in Indian territory near Panipat, some 80 kms north of Indian capital New Delhi.
“This is saffron terrorism,” Indian Home Minister said referring to India’s rightwing Hindu groups.
This is first time that India’s Home Minister has directly named India’s right wing Hindu groups of fomenting terrorism.
I have been always saying this: Congress leader
Reacting to Home Minister’s allegations against two right wing Hindu groups, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh said he was pleased that Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has revealed that RSS and the BJP were promoting Hindu terror.
“I have been saying this for the past several years and I have been proved right after country’s home minister agreed to role of the RSS in terror acts,” he said.
He said he is happy. “Everybody said I was mad but now I have been proved right,” added Digvijay.
It is highly irresponsible: RSS
RSS spokesman Ram Madhav termed Home Minister’s statement as “highly irresponsible”. “He has made the remarks only to please his party bosses,” he said.
“If a Congress leader had said something like this it wouldn’t have mattered that much, but if the Home Minister of the country is saying something like this, it is highly irresponsible. This is all about playing vote-bank politics,” he said.
He said the home minister has become the darling of ‘terrorists’ with Jamat-ud-Dawah and Lashkar-e-Toiba congratulating him for his comments.
“Today Jamat ud Dawa etc congratulated Shinde. Now he has become darling of real terrorists. It is Shinde who is helping our enemies by such statements. Now even LeT welcomed his statement I am told,” Madhav added.
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Once upon a time, the same things were told about Our Shri Shri Shaviji Maharaj by then Mughal King Aurangzeb.
The day he become HM there was Blast in Pune, has he been able to find the miscreant. So much time gone. Being HM, it is shameful. No need to talk about Chamchas.