The disturbing rise of terror in Kerala - Hindu Janajagruti Samiti

Ashadh Krushna Shashthi, Kaliyug Varsha 5112

By Balbir Punj

While a section of the secular pack in the media and establishment is busy creating the myth of ‘Hindu terror’, the real terrorists have made deep inroads into the ‘secular’ bastion of Kerala, a state which has never elected a BJP nominee to the State Assembly since Independence. The recent hacking of the hand of a Christian college teacher T J Joseph in Muvattupuzha in Kerala allegedly by jihadi extremists has been closely followed by an attempted derailing of an entire passenger train in Nilambur in Kerala.

Only five days after the attack on the college teacher some 20 hosepipes connecting the different coaches of a passenger train in Nilambur were cut systematically. Both the incidents are stated to be the handiwork of jihadi extremists. Added to these is the discovery of large quantities of detonators, explosives and other elements of bombs in different places and buses all within the last few weeks.

Those friends of mine who are regular readers of Malayalam newspapers say that ever since these incidents happened, the raids that the Kerala police have carried out in different places in north of the state, have exposed a well-planned conspiracy to store enormous quantities of all types of weapons, bombs both improvised and imported, material to make more of them, killer weapons like swords, long knives, axes, hacking devices and what not, mostly stored in remote places in abandoned godowns.

The so-called Popular Front of India and the Socialist Democratic Party of India, two among many front organisations launched by jihadi militants to overthrow the state and capture power are stated to be behind the large storage of weapons. Obviously the purpose of such storage is self-evident. Besides, the police have recovered CDs, laptops and printed material from the many offices of these organisations searched following the Muvattupuzha incident.

The sudden weapons haul across the Malabar and Trichur coastline has also exposed the state government to public ridicule. Home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said that he would not allow another Taliban to grow on Kerala soil. But he has to answer the public concern as to how it was that so many organisations were able to function so long as to store large quantities of weapons and at many places (along the coast!) without the police coming to know of it.

Was this the result of political ties that the ‘secular’ establishment had forged with Muslim extremist organisations for years? Did not the Congress and Marxists join hands prior to the last Assembly elections, seeking release of jihadi extremist Abdul Nasser Madani who was being tried for his leading role in the Coimbatore blasts?

There is widespread suspicion that jihadi extremism has received protection and encouragement from the political class, cutting across political barriers. Kerala Congress chairman K M Mani reacting to the incident of the attack on the teacher revealed that there was intelligence report against a possible threat to the life of the teacher. Not giving him police protection despite this, was a failure of Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, an accolade of the Marxist party boss Pinarayi Vijayan.

Political leaders usually accuse each other in such events but Mani’s accusation has much truth in it because the Marxists were openly allied with PDP in the last elections and the central security agencies have revealed how Kerala police had turned a blind eye to the many extremist activities of jihadis including their conducting training camps. T Nassir, the main accused in the Bangalore serial blasts case had ‘escaped’ from Kerala police custody earlier and was finally traced back to Bangladesh by security agencies of other states.

The state BJP demand that the incident itself should be investigated by the National Investigation Agency has gained wide support in the state especially after the attempt to derail the passenger train at Nilambur also got exposed. Recently a top IG-level police officer from the state even dared to visit the Middle East and meet absconding jihadi leaders.

Our diplomats in the Middle East sent a report to the Centre about the secret visit of the police officer, believed to be close to Vijayan, following which the state government has had to act against the officer much against the expressed wishes of the Balakrishnan at the insistence of Chief Minister V S Achutanandan.

The ramification of jihadi organisations and the spread of the mindset that justifies such allegedly religion-ordered punishment in Kerala, are the result of the increasing links that state has begun to build following the job rush to the Middle East, majority of the beneficiaries being Muslims. The Union minister of state for home M Ramachandran has admitted that the security agencies are worried about the flow of funds for extremist activities and the innovative ways in which these funds are received.

Apart from money, the jihadi mindset is fired by the indoctrination that links the prosperity in the Gulf region to their religion and the orthodox punishments they impose on local population for any deviation from the line of action prescribed in their sacred texts. The type of attack on the college teacher is evidence of a dangerous mindset invading a coastal state with a significant economic and other links with the Middle East. Whether those fabricating fantasies of saffron terror are doing so to divert the nation’s attention from the real terror, is an issue that should concern the security agencies. We all know that red herrings are frequently used as a smoke screen

Source: Express Buzz

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