RTI revealation : No evidence for ‘Saffron terrorism’ or ‘Hindu terror camps’

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By Shri. Upananda Brahmachari 

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) : The baseless Home Minister of India, Sushil Kumar Shinde has now been exposed in broad day light as he had no evidence to give any proof for his alleged blame upon RSS and BJP to have link with Saffron Terrorism or Hindu Extremism. A revelation came up in connection with a RTI matter filed by activist Urvashi Sharma and actually knocked the Home Ministry and stamped Sushil Kumar Shinde as a blatant liar.

Moreover, the government also failed to indicate the total number of incidents of violence that have been persecuted upon the minorities in the country. The information sought under the RTI Act, now has been emerged as a big embarrassment for Congress and UPA Govt in the Center.

The Government in the Home Ministry has also failed to indicate the information about the total number of incidents of infiltration and places of insurgency in the country time to time, as there is no record lying with GOI as replied against the RTI matter filed by activist Urvashi Sharma.

In January,  Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde alleged in the Congress Contemplation Conclave (Chintan Shivir) at Jaipur, Rajasthan that the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh were organizing ‘terrorist training camp’ as a part Hindu terrorism in the country, as per reports available with him. RSS and the BJP then criticized Sonia Gandhi and Shinde for such baseless allegation and demanded  apology for Shinde’s statement .

Union Minister of External Affairs Minister, Salman Khurshid also voiced at that time in favor of the statement of Shinde and opined that whatever Shinde said was based on the facts. However Khurshid rejected then the terrorism to be linked with any religion.

On January 28 this year, RTI activist Smt. Urvashi Sharma submitted an application under RTI (Right to Information Act, 2005) in an attempt to get answers to seven point questions to Prime Minister’s Office in connection with Sushil Kumar Shinde’s alleged claim of organizing terror training camp by BJP and RSS.

Smt. Sharma applied to get the certified copy/copies of those records available with Government of India that can establish the statement by the Home Minister for involvement Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with Hindu terrorism through operating the terror training camps as alleged.

The RTI application also demanded list of places and numbers of such BJP and RSS run Hindu terrorism training camps in details within India and abroad. The application also sought any Order, (if any), from Govt to discriminate or segregate or brand any act of terrorism with caste, creed or religion.

It was also demanded in the RTI application to provide the details of infiltration and insurgency in India and the actions so far taken by the Govt to combat all these infiltration and insurgency so far.

The RTI application also demanded to provide the copies of the investigation reports of the Blast in Samjhauta Express, Mecca Masjid blast and Malegaon blast.

In a very casual fashion, the concerned office has given a reply that the Home Minister clarified all the related matter through his statement on 20^th Feb in which he stated the possibility of misinterpretation of his statement in this row.

In connection of investigation reports as demanded for Samjhauta Express, Mecca Masjid and Malegaon blast, it was conveyed by the GOI that these are beyond the purview of RTI Act.

Though Shinde has been exposed for his nefarious work of equating Hindu Nationalism with Jihadi Terrorism, the main stream media still keep aloof for such a serious matter of ‘Active Jihadi Groups in Congress’. If not, why Shinde was throwing stones from a fragile glass house of Congress ?

But, I must congratulate Smt. Urvashi Sharma, the RTI activist here, who exposed Sushil Kumar Shinde and Congress.

Source : Hindu Existence