Syed Ali Haisum Bukhari
With the fastly changing global scenario, world over intellectual people firmly
believe and talking about interfaith harmony, peace, prosperity and humanity.
But ironically, Narindra Modi and his comrades are yet drastically pursuing their
nefarious hindutva (Hinduism) ideology through cohesive means e.g state
terrorism. It has also now become obvious to the global and regional players
that Indian govt is fully exploiting its powers to bulldoze houses of the Muslim
minorities, banning mosques (but opening cinemas) and judicial system is
following the law of punishing the poor. The venomous hindutva thoughts are
now getting outreach and the recent Hindu Muslim skirmishes in Leicester,
UK exhibit its repercussions. The growing tendency of hindutva militancy is
need to be timely curbed before it spreads in EU and Middle East countries.
Perhaps, hindutva tycoons are not analyzing that Hindu Muslims lived together
for centuries, they have close bondage and sharing of the culture of
subcontinent. Moreover, there are 200 million Muslims besides other minorities
in India, so there is no other option except to accept them as an Indian nationals
and brotherhood should prevail. However, BJP is preparing for gradual
genocidal massacres of Muslims and other minorities.
The evil practice of hindutva forces especially for training of their youth for
sabotage and militancy especially before the elections is no more secret and
cat is out of the box. The recent affidavit of a long-time pracharak (preacher,
worker) has made startling revelations about the involvement of Indian army
in training Hindu militants in bomb-making, testing, and detonation. His
magnum opus of realities unmasks the ugly face of the Rashtriya Swayemsevak
Sangh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal (caught redhanded in imparting military training with live arms to students in Hindumanaged schools in Maharashtra). It was further revealed that a three-day
camp was organized in a resort at the foot of Sinhagad fort. About 20 youths
from Aurangabad, Jalgaon, Nanded and other places in Maharashtra
participated in the training.
The trainees were given material like 3-4 kinds of explosive powders, pieces of
pipes, wires, bulbs, watches etc. for preparing bombs”. The trainees were taken
to a remote forest location to practice using the bombs. The bomb with the timer
was placed in a small pit dug by the trainees, which was then filled with dirt and
large boulders before the explosive was set off.
It was further revealed that after the training, Himanshu caused three blasts in
the Marathwada region of Maharashtra. He had a plan to cause a major blast
in the main mosque in Aurangabad and while making a bomb for that blast he
lost his life in Nanded.
It has been learned that Milind Parande was the mastermind of the
conspiracy for nationwide bombings. Shinde was chosen for this project
as the RSS and BJP leaders trusted his ability to trigger 500 to 600
countrywide blasts. In addition to “Garjana” in Maharashtra, “Hindu Yuva
Chhatra Parishad” in Jammu-Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Assam, and UP, “Shri
Ram Sena” in Karnataka, and senior leaders like Tapan Ghosh in West Bengal,
he interacted with all of these groups.
BJP won the elections, making Narendra Modi third time prime minister basing
on the hindutva ideology. In fact, RSS is the parent organization and the
ideological backbone to a host of Hindutva groups including the ruling
BJP. In his affidavit, Shinde claims top right-wing leaders were involved in
Nanded Blast.
According to the affidavit, Shinde was involved with the RSS since 1990 when
he was 18. He went to Jammu in 1994 after reading that Hindus were being
killed in the state, and Indresh Kumar, an RSS veteran, appointed him as the
“vistarak’ (a post in the RSS) of Rajauri and Jawaharnagar. In 1995, Shinde
was arrested for slapping former chief minister Farooq Abdullah but was bailed
out. He was acquitted in 1998.
Shinde states in his affidavit that the bomb blasts had a political motive.
They were intended to polarize Hindu voters against Muslims. “For
selecting the boys for this purpose, there was a state-level meeting of VHP in
Thane (Maharashtra). In that meeting, the applicant got introduced to one
Himanshu Panse of Nanded. At that time Himanshu Panse was the full-time
worker of the VHP in Goa. He and his seven friends were selected for training.
The applicant took Himanshu and his s friends to Jammu. There they received
training in modern weaponry from the Indian Army jawans.
“For selecting the boys for this purpose, there was a state-level meeting of VHP
in Thane (Maharashtra). In that meeting, the applicant got introduced to one
Himanshu Panse of Nanded. At that time Himanshu Panse was the full-time
worker of the VHP in Goa. He and his seven friends were selected for training.
Anti-terrorist court’s findings also substantiate that much of what Shinde has
alleged in his affidavit is part of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad’s first
charge sheet in the case. The charge sheet revealed that Panse had gone to a
resort in “Sinhagad near Pune for training in making pipe bombs from a man
named Mithun Chakraborty”. Moreover, Sanatkumar Ragvithal Bhate, a retired
Navy officer from Pune, had also reportedly told the anti-terrorism squad that
Parade had asked him to “train his activists in the use of gelatine sticks at a
camp in the city”.
Basing on the above revelations in the affidavit, Congress leaders Pawan Khera
and Digvijaya Singh tweeted the affidavit saying that the revelation from the
former RSS worker has exposed the right-wing organization. Shinde
completed the RSS training course and undertook various sabotage and militant
activities for gaining political mileage for BJP.
Astonishingly, the Indian government is silent about Shinde’s revelations and
realities. It has now crystalized that the anti-Muslim frenzy generated through
bomb blasts catapulted Narendra Modi to power in the previous elections.
Therefore there is a dire need for the UNO, global and regional power to
timely look into the hindutva anti-minority ideology and curbed the
growing hate mongering policies before it gets its outreach to Europe,
Middle East and other regions besides destroying the domestic front.
Author: Syed Ali Haisum Bukhari is student of Defense and
Strategic Studies at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. A
research fellow at Pakistan House think tank and Muslim
Institute. For feedback email at alihaisum.2000@gmail.co
