Will Bajrang Dal’s Real Dad Please Stand Up
By Shamsul Islam
Indian Currents
14 June, 2003
An English Indian national daily carried the following report on June 2, 2003: "The Liberhan Commission proceedings earlier this week took an interesting turn when Justice Liberhan tried to put the Central council, Lala Ram Gupta, on the mat for trying to wriggle out of some awkward questions. ‘I will keep on asking you awkward questions to get at the truth,’ the judge said. Not to be undone, the council quipped: "And I will keep answering your questions in my own awkward way."
Shortly afterwards, the duo again sparred over the origin of the Bajrang Dal. "Whose baby is the Bajrang Dal?" The judge asked the counsel pointedly. Determined not to be pinned down, the counsel replied: ‘How should I know whose is it? How am I supposed to know whose baby it is?’ he asked with an air of injured innocence. ‘Any way, the Central Government has nothing to do with whose baby it is.’
Justice Liberhan made one last try. ‘Who is Vinay Katiyar then? Did not he float the Bajrang Dal?’ Pat came the reply: ‘Who is Vinay Katiyar?’ After that, Justice Liberhan just gave up."
If the Liberhan Commission has not yet turned into a farce, one will expect that this important Commission which was established to unearth the real culprits and conspirators behind the demolition of Babri Mosque on December 6, 1992 will gear up itself to do better home work. There is no doubt that the Central Government and its counsel are working overtime to mislead and confuse the Liberhan Commission. They have learnt their tricks in the shakhas of RSS which specializes in bluff game. Naturally it is their vested interest to hide facts for shielding the criminals who caused irreparable damage to Indian secular state.
However, Justice Liberhan can still find the parentage and lineage of communal organisations like Bajrang Dal, VHP, Hindu Jagran Manch, and Hindu Munnani if it is able to have access to a publication of RSS- Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par.
This book is also a must for law enforcing agencies who are looking for linkages between murderers (of Graham Staines and his two sons in Orissa, and innocent Muslims in Gujarat) and the RSS. The authentic information contained in this book should pave the way for bringing to justice the real culprits who run this nexus for RSS.
It directly contradicts the RSS public posture that it is a non-political organization and BJP, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Dharam Sansad etc are independent organisations and don’t work under the dictates of the RSS. It is pertinent that one compares this with the facts available in this official publication of the RSS. It is necessary to know the whole nexus. The central publication house of the RSS, Suruchi Prakashan, New Delhi, in 1997 published Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par (On the road to Great Glory) penned by Sadanand Damodar Sapre, a senior RSS functionary. This book contains details of more than 40 organizations created by the RSS for different tasks. The preface of the book itself declares that "without the knowledge of the different kinds of activities of the Swayamsevaks (the volunteers of the RSS) the introduction of the RSS is incomplete. Keeping this in mind it has been attempted in this book to produce the brief information about the diverse activities of the Swayamsevaks. This book covers the organizational status till 1996.We believe that this book will prove to be of use for those who want to understand the RSS along with the Swayamsevaks". (page 7)
This book goes on to tell that how and why Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini, Dharam Sansad or Religious Parliament (anti-minority) were created by RSS. (page 20-24) The RSS insists that Dharam Sansad is the highest supreme body of Hindus. This book tells us that, "VHP established Dharam Sansad in 1984". It means that Dharam Sansad or the Religious Parliament is simply a puppet of the RSS.
This publication of the RSS shows how the organization is run in a clandestine manner. It runs like a well-organized mafia through its subsidiaries. There has always been much confusion about its different fronts that provide RSS with the opportunity to dissociate with any of these as per its convenience. For instance it used Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM) for attacking Christians in late 90’s and when public opinion, media and Parliament seemed to turn against it, RSS denied any relation with HJM. Recently, when nefarious designs of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and Dharam Sansad were exposed before the Nation, RSS announced that these were independent organizations. Interestingly, it often becomes a mediator between BJP Government and the above nefarious fronts.
It will be interesting to know that many of these organisations have been organized on a true fascist and clandestine manner. For instance while giving the details of Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM), the book says, "From the point of view of Hindu awakening this kind of forums (HJM) at present are active in 17 states with different names like ‘Hindu Manch’ in Delhi, ‘Hindu Munnani’ in Tamil Nadu, ‘Hinduekjut’ in Maharashtra. These are forums, not associations or organisations, that’s why it is not required to have membership, registration and elections". (page 64) It is clear that these work as mafia to avoid scrutiny by law and government. Such an organizational mode provides an opportunity to RSS to disown any individual or organization.
RSS can indulge in conspiracies too. The book discloses that in Delhi immediately after partition: "Swayamsevaks had posed to have adopted Musalman religion in order to gain the confidence of Delhi Muslim League for knowing their conspiracies" (page 86)
This publication of RSS lists details of about forty fronts and more than 10 publication houses serving the goals of RSS.