Thursday, November 18, 2010

RSS discourse on terrorism: canards

RSS along with its many affiliates commonly known as Sangh parivar has its discourse on terrorism shrunken to just blame game against the Congress party. This is the only armour it has believing mistakenly that attacking the Congress party is its best self defence. What has crowded out all other things is its self hurt on conspiracy that it alleges the Congress to have hatched against it. Quintessentially it does not see facts in the broad day light that its activists have been caught in bomb blasts not once or twice but several times. The Sangh is a multi headed hydra and has been involved in terrorist attacks of both the kinds, conspiratorial bomb blasts by its scattered cells everywhere as well as its leading mobs who attack minorities by organizing pogroms. Malegaon, Margo, Mecca masjid, Ajmer, the Samjhauta express are some of the most remarkable examples of the first and the genocide of Christians in Kandhamal and the pogroms of Muslims in Gujarat 2002 and the communal riots of 2008 in Jammu and Madhya Pradesh over the issue of the land grant to the pilgrimage of Amarnath cave are recent examples of the second. There is also another kind of terrorism, albeit a new one. It is engaged in turf war in Kannur, Kerala. Some of the most spine chilling blood baths have taken place there when its cadres attack Muslims and communists with choppers and bombs. If a man is known by the company he keeps, the RSS is known by the cadres it keeps armed to the teeth. If anyone is unaware of it he should peep at the display of arms of its cadres during the Dassera march it organizes every year. He would be gullible if he believes that the Sangh would turn the swords and guns into ploughshares.
Ever since Dr KG Hedgewar and BS Moonje founded it in the 20s of the 20th century the search for killing larger number was the hidden agenda. Moonje even travelled to Mussolin’s Italy to learn it. In 2008 bomb blast at Bhikuchowk in Malegaon this gave away the secret. Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur asked the bomb planter Ramji Kalsangra why so few were killed. That phone call proved their guilt. She came from Durga Vahini, a woman outfit of the RSS. Her close associate Sunil Joshi involved in multiple attacks was an office bearer of it. He was planning to attack a huge Muslim gathering aiming to kill huge number during an Ijtema or Muslim congregation that took place in the greatest mosque of India situated at Bhopal in 2004.
As far as acts of violence are concerned the RSS and BJP are indistinguishable in their involvement in these. Most of them are members of both. Former Prime Minister Vajpayee and Deputy PM LK Advani and the current Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi have always felt proud of being members of RSS and owed their life achievement to that organization. Advani and Modi have a long and gory trail of record of murder and arson against the minorities, particularly Muslims, in the aftermath of the rathyatra in the early nineties and Gujarat pogroms of 2002. In what way are they any better than the BJP MLA, Pradhan, of G Udaygiri in Orissa who was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for killing Christians? He had fourteen criminal cases against him of which half were murder related. All these belong to the anti Christian riots of 2008 when 43 Christians were killed, 150 churches razed to the ground and 4600 houses burnt. All this happened as a punishment to the Christians whom the RSS blamed for the murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Laxmananda Saraswati. He it was who was forcing the Christians to reconvert to Hinduism.
A different story was about Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati the main accused in the murder of Sankararaman a very high officer in charge of the holiest seat of Hinduism in the South of India. The pontiff and his successor were charged under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. If convicted they would even face execution. There were 23 others charged.
Given the facts of the events as they are the pontiff from the south and the Swami from Orissa are criminals. And yet the RSS boss Mohan Bhagwat terms them as saints. How could the RSS go to the people to justify that this outfit is not an organization involved in terrorism? Bhagwat claims that “the opinion of people will change due to work of these saints”!
Most of the acts of RSS are furtive, sinister, and shrouded in secrecy, can it afford to come clean and be candid? Bhagwat claims: “But this time Sangh has decided to tell the people what the reality is. We will fight it in the court, publicise our view and will reach out to the people and tell them the reality.”
This is just a tall claim which the RSS cannot put into practice and hence the chief holds out the threat: “even after this, if those conspiring against the organization continue with their nefarious attempts Sangh will teach them a lesson.” Can the people of this democratic country expect him to spell out what would be the lesson?

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