The Quagmire of Terrorism: BJP Ruled States
By Mustafa Khan
09 May, 2010
Countercurrents.org
Long lingering suspicion about BJP’s tampering with investigation into terrorism is now out in the open. This ultranationalist Hindu party is never shy of defending the ultranationalist accused in terrorism. The change of government in Rajasthan has started a process that is snowballing into a huge humiliation for the party if it can bring itself to feel it. There is every reason that it would not feel, nay go out attacking the Congress and other parties since communalism is its life force.
In the Ajmer bomb blast it is only now that BJP is not in power that the truth is coming out. There is fear that the arrest of Devendra Gupta would reveal the ‘fountainhead’ of RSS’s link to Ajmer blast. It is equally relevant to note how subsequent to the arrest of the RSS volunteer Gupta the Supreme Court has declared narco test illegal. The general secretary of RSS Suresh Soni has since then and may be only because of it said that the RSS has relieved Gupta of all responsibilities.
People in Jaipur now want a fresh probe in May 2008 attack and they believe that the investigation was waylaid because of the police under the leash of their political bosses of BJP. Association For Protection Of Civil Rights (APCR) is convinced after the disclosure in the Ajmer case of involvement of RSS and BJP. Among the members is Mr. Sawai Singh, convener Sadbhav Manch Rajasthan, who said “we advised the investigating agencies in the very beginning to keep all possibilities at hand and not to spare any one from the investigation.” He believes that the erstwhile BJP government rode its hobby horse of communalism even when terrorists’ acts pointed finger at the extremists among the Hindutva groups
There is a clear pattern emerging from all over the country. The police keep Muslims under their scanner and frame them whenever any terrorist act takes place. They don’t bother to even casually look at the involvement of Hindu organizations. Unless the Indian society is divided on communal lines who would bother about BJP and hence to keep the pot boiling they connect terrorist acts with Muslim youths. That creates the desired impression against the Muslims and gives rich dividends at polls because the accusation raises the paranoia of the people. BJP plays upon their susceptibility.
It is easy to mouth a platitude like terrorism knows no religion and a terrorist has no religion. Religious texts have been appropriated to the end of terrorist attack according to all kinds of terrorists irrespective of which faith they follow. Mohammad Atta overtly used lines of Koran to justify what he did. Arun Shouri has also made clear that the Hindu scriptures lend a very violent interpretation in which terrifying attacks can be justified as self preservation. Indeed, one such self preservation was the matter of job reservation for backward Muslims under Sachhar commission recommendations. Shourie threatened the minority that if they persist in demanding it then nobody would stop Narendra Modi from going to Delhi (read, from becoming the Prime Ministe of India) and put them to mortal risk as he did in 2002! Bal Thackeray wrote to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that job reservation for Muslims would make Shiv sena start a civil war in the country. He often spoke of the third of eye of Shiva opening when his sainiks were slaughtering Muslims in the resurgence of violence beginning in the second week of January 1993.
But there is a major difference between perpetrators of terrorism from Hindu and Muslim folds. We had always known the involvement of the ISI in terrorist attacks in India. We had also known for quite a long time that the Indian army was most secular in outlook while dealing with internal disturbance. Malegaon attacks as well as Samjhauta express attacks have changed that. A couple of days before Hemant Karkare was shot dead he had visited New Delhi along with senior ATS officers to apprise the higher echelon of the government that there was disturbing enlargement of involvement of the army in terrorism and that has serious repercussion for the country. It was like what Ashish Nandi said of the vanner sena or the monkey brigade taking up terrorist reprisal.
That it is not just the army but what has been obviously felt by many but never uttered that BJP rule is also skewed by terrorism. Even a senior journalist like Kuldip Nayyer is troubled: “Authoritative sources in Delhi suspect that Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP government is in power, has become a safe sanctuary for the Hindu outfits. Hindu Jagran Manch from Indore in the state is considered by the Maharashtra police responsible for the Malegaon blasts which killed 37 Muslims ( in September 8 2006 blasts).” Should Indore be added as another hub of terrorism?
It also does not come as a surprise since it fits in jigsaw of terrorism that Jatin Chatterjee aka Swami Asimanand is hiding in Gujarat. Chief Minister Narendra Modi gifting money to Asimanand is a documented fact. His wreaking havoc on the converted tribals is also well known. He was sighted at an ashram on Saturday April 1.If Alice were to be born again it would be in the wonderland of Gujarat! Narco test though abrogated by the SC cannot be simply like throwing the baby with the wash water. It did leave vital clues like Srikant Puohit revealing the names of Swami Asimanand and Ramji Kalsganra. Both are absconding and supposed to be ‘hibernating’ in Gujarat. Will they too be given signal to come out when all is quiet on the western front as Babu Bajrangi was given?
Gujarat is the laboratory of Hindutva and RSS is doing the experimentation. Dr SB Munje had visited Italy to find out how larger number of people could be killed. RSS never believed in the Constitution albeit it hides its own constitution like it hides so many other things. Denial is its standard tactic to ward off suspicion and the more it does the greater is the suspicion. LK Advani often denies that Nathuram Godse was a member of RSS. The world knows better than Advani and Soni. If a proper and impartial investigation is done in Sunil Kulkarni’s death it would also lift veil of secrecy that RSS was connected to the secret plan to blow up the huge Bhopal mosque where a Muslim congregation of tabligi jamat was taking place. May be truth would come out once BJP is removed from power in MP.
