The nation is asking the BJP and all its allied organizations to come cleanon the recent terror incidents at Malegaon and Modasa as also earlier ones atNanded and Kanpur. It is officially accepted that the RSS is the mother and thecontrolling brain of the entire BJP set up and that of its allied organizations.Its top leaders regularly pay obeisance at Nagpur and most have been or are cardholding members of the RSS. The Bajrang Dal, the VHP, the ABVP, the Durga Vahiniare all official adjuncts of the BJP and the RSS. Some like the Bajrang Dalcomprise its youth wing, others like the Durga Vahini comprise its women's youthwing and still others like the ABVP comprise its student wing.
The investigations into Malegaon and Modasa are not only terrifying because theyinvolve terrorism--they are horribly horrifying because they involve andimplicate almost every limb and part of a mainstream political party viz the BJP.Pragya Singh has admittedly been an active member of the ABVP. Major Upadhaya isadmittedly associated with the BJP ex-servicemen cell. The photograph showingPragya Singh is recent and cannot be dismissed as just a public photograph ofBJP leaders with the general public. It is a very special photograph of a closeand tightly knit group inside a small room with only high ranking persons likeShivraj Chauhan, CM, MP; Rajnath Singh, President BJP, Mrs. Gaud and PragyaSingh present. This is the photo of a special Circle of Trust--an intimate andexclusive Circle of Trust.
Secondly, the direct links of fundamentalists and extremists at Pune, Nagpur andat the Military School raise the fundamental issue of the thinking andphilosophy of the entire Sangh organization which is exclusivist, divisive, antiminority, anti Gandhi and anti Indian ethos. That is why Pragya Singh has beenrecorded on tape making anti-minority and anti-Gandhi tirades. That is why thethinking and approach of Himanshu Phanse of the Bajrang Dal and of Rajkondawarmatches the fascist teachings and writings of Mussolini admirer BS Moonje. It isthe same philosophy which admittedly animated Hedgewar and Golwalkar and ledthem to specifically refer to Muslims and Christians as "InternalThreats" (see Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, 3rd ed, pg 177). The BJPand all its associates deliberately camouflage and disguise their communal anddivisive philosophies in the false idiom of "cultural nationalism" todeceive the nation and to cling to power. The principal actors in thisdrama--from Pragya, to Upadhaya to Bhate to Phanse--and the principal locationsat Pune and Nagpur, are reminiscent of the Gandhi assassination conspiracy. Iwish to remind you that the RSS only narrowly, by a whisker, escaped convictionand permanent ignominy 60 years ago by pleading that the principal conspiratorshad supposedly and allegedly resigned and left the RSS some months prior to thekilling of Gandhi. The BJP's plea about Pragya and Upadhaya in 2008 is thus aclear echo of 1948. That was Gandhi, the father of the nation; this is terrorismand the nation itself.
This is the true face of the BJP. It claims to be a mainstream political partywith its direct members and associates directly linked to terrorism. Its givesus homilies on terror and calls us soft on terror while allowing its ownphilosophy to preach terror and its own activists to commit terror. It definesterror on minorities as nationalism and patriotism. It creates Frankenstein'smonsters like Pragya Singh and Major Upadhaya and then tries to fool the nationby disowning them when confronted with direct evidence. It is a party whichdeserves to have no existence in India. Its direct members and associates aredirectly linked to terrorism.
On Maharashtra: Prosecute Shri. Thackeray with full vigour. We willoppose every step he takes to legitimize his actions or his utterances. We willoppose him in the courts and we will ensure that outside the court he is notable to create chaos and absence of law and order. In that resolves we areabsolutely firm and unwavering.
Based on the media briefing by the Congress spokesperson on October27, 2008
