New Delhi, July 17: Cong says its terror charge vindicated. ALL- INDIA Congress Committee ( AICC) general secretary Digvijay Singh was chatting with a group of reporters at the AICC headquarters about 5.30 pm when RSS activists were trying to ransack the Headlines Today office.
The questions shot off by the scribes, who were unaware about the saffron wing’s hooliganism, centred around the RSS and its suspected involvement in terrorist acts.
Singh is one of the first Congress leader to suspect the involvement of the RSS and its affiliates such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal and the Ram Sene in some of the blasts. He said he had been flagging the issue for the last eight years.
“ I have been saying this for the last eight years. I am happy that finally people have started taking note of it,” he said.
Singh demanded the arrest of all RSS activists involved in terrorist acts and demanded that both the RSS and the BJP come clean on the allegations.
Even the RSS had admitted the involvement of it leader Indresh with the ISI. His links with the two people accused in the Malegaon blast should also be probed, Singh said.
The inquiry can be carried out by the National Investigative Agency ( NIA) in collaboration with state agencies and the home ministry could coordinate the investigations,” he said. He added that the involvement of RSS leaders Ashok Varshney and Ashok Berry in some terror attacks had been established.
Indicating the RSS’s expertise in ( crude) bomb making, Singh said “ they use a pipe with nails and trigger off the device with a mobile.
This kind of bomb device was first used in December 2002 in Bhopal.” Recalling a series of violent RSS attacks, he said: “ Sunil Joshi, who was an RSS pracharak in Madhya Pradesh, had been murdered. The BJP government closed investigations into the case.
Why?” Singh asked.
He recalled the 1992 Neemuch blast, the 2006 Nanded blast, the 2008 Kanpur incident and said the RSS and its sister organisations were linked to them as well as the Goa and Thane blasts.
Singh, however, said he was not blaming the whole RSS. “ There are elements in it who believe in this kind of violence.” Earlier, Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan called upon the organisation to come clean on links of its senior leaders with terror.
“ We also call on the BJP to make its stand clear on the terrorist links of the leaders of RSS,” Natarajan said. She said there was a need to unearth the truth.
She recalled that the BJP had accused late Maharashtra police officer Hemant Karkare of being unpatriotic when he started uncovering the unholy nexus.
Courtesy: Mailtoday