The phenomenon of saffron terror, now it’s official

Home Minister P Chidambrum was not addressing humdrum ‘aam aadmi’ when he talked definitely about the saffron terrorism. He was addressing the director generals of police of all the states of India. Therefore the meeting assumes importance because it will be again the venue where the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would address the following day.
Why had the Home Minister to be so categorical about saffron terrorism? Already Hindu terrorism had created such a furor when Malegaon 2008 exploded on the national psyche. Remember what LK Advani and others of his ilk said and did then. Therefore Chidambrum took a more realistic epithet to define the groups. In the first place those suspected and accused or even arrested in Nanded, Malegaon, Purna, Parbhani, Jalna, Goa, Modasa , Mecca mosque, Ajmer, Samjhauta Express are all from the sangh parivar which is known as saffron group or family. They include members of RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, Abhinav Bharat, Sanatan Sansthan, etc. they belong to one family.
What prompted the Home Minister to make it public does not need much deciphering as it was widely seen now than ever before that there was clear attempt to shield the guilty and throw the blames on the Muslims. Who did this but the police and the investigation agencies and even the National Security Advisor Mr Narayanan. When the public domain is seized of the truth you cannot go on beating the dead horse believing that there was just one and one organization. That SIMI and only SIMI with its many aliases was the whole and sole terrorist organization. Every two years the government went to the Supreme Court to plead for re-imposing ban on it. It got on the nerves of the Judge who told the government to give at least one instance where SIMI was clearly involved. The judge asked the government to lift the ban but then the government again re-imposed the ban not by citing proof but allegations.
In contrast the proof in Malegaon 2008 was just undeniable. Hemant Karkare was a dedicated and professional officer and looked at the matter in a very objective manner. He had told his assistants that if the suspected was a Hindu they should check it not once but thrice and make sure they had enough proof.
We cannot always rush the attorney general of India and the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission to Geneva to plead with the Amnesty International not to visit the affected areas go public about what was happening in India, as PM Vajpayee did when he rushed Soli Sorabji and Justice Verma to hide the shame of Narendra Modi’s Gujarat pogroms of 2002. We have still not accepted that that was also terrorism conducted according to the strategy of the Hindutva laboratory of the state of Gujarat. The world is watching. Due to certain considerations if some have not been so forward in condemnation it should not be taken to mean that such things had not happened, that it was mere Newton’s third law. ( Interestingly the British High Commission in New Delhi did note it and leaked to Hindustan Times on April 15, 2003: “Their [the saffron group] systematic campaign of violence has all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing. The attack on the train at Godhra on 27th February provided the pretext. If it had not occurred, another one would have been found.”)
The Samjhauta Express case has exposed how even the highest officers played terror politics to hide terrorism. The Haryana police had almost cracked the case but they were stymied by the Madhya Pardesh police. Now the accused involved in Malegaon and Ajmer cases are the ones who were behind the Samjhauta.
The making official of saffron terrorism in the present context should be seen as a belated hint that it is far too late to go on not calling a spade a spade.
Is it not phenomenon about the new discoveries that the above mentioned groups had even arranged help from Israel, that they had drafted their own constitution, that they had made arrangement for training terrorists with Nepal, that they had used Bhonsla Military School for potential terrorists’ indoctrination and training, that they had even infiltrated the army and the IB.? If these are not remarkable and unusual then what phenomenon is?