Saswat Panigrahi
Remember WikiLeaks? A secret US diplomatic cable, released by the whistleblower website, quoted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as saying ‘Hindu radical groups’ pose a much bigger threat to India than Pakistan-based terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayyeba.
Remember WikiLeaks? A secret US diplomatic cable, released by the whistleblower website, quoted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as saying ‘Hindu radical groups’ pose a much bigger threat to India than Pakistan-based terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayyeba.
Rahul had made those comments during a conversation with US Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer just eight months after 26/11.
Now fast forward to Jaipur where Congress held a Chintan Shivir. As the whole country mourned the gruesome and unprovoked killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani Army, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde raked up ghosts of the imaginary ‘Hindu terror’ again. Shinde essentially, was taking off from where Rahul had left off.
He went on to blame the main Opposition party BJP and its ideological fountainhead RSS for promoting ‘Hindu terror’.
“Training camps of both the BJP and the RSS are promoting Hindu terrorism. Whether it is Samjhauta blast or Mecca Masjid blast or Malegaon blast, they plant bombs and blame it on the minorities,” Shinde said. Later he backtracked and said it was ‘saffron terror’ and not ‘Hindu terror’ that he was talking about.
The Congress’s traditional approach — spewing venom against imaginary saffron offences has come full circle.
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