Their own jehad: Hindu groups in terror role?

SCARY SAFFRON: Activists of the Bajrang Dal. The group is accused of being fundamentalist.

            

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Extremist Hindu groups may be involved in terrorist-style bomb attacks, security officials suspect.

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) squad of Maharashtra Police has detained four members of the Hindu Jagran Manch for the bomb explosions in Malegaon, Maharashtra, and Modasa, Gujarat, on September 29.

The supporters of the Hindu Jagaran Manch, a front for an outfit named the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, allegedly targeted mosques to avenge earlier bomb explosions blamed on Islamic militants.

Security officials also suspect that workers of Bajrang Dal, which is part of the Sangh Parivar, have been trained in bomb making and they have targeted mosques in Parbhani, Jalna and Purna in Maharashtra. In August 2008, two Bajrang Dal members died in a mysterious explosion in Kanpur.

Does India’s next terrorist threat come from militant Hindu groups? And is there a conspiracy of silence when it comes to potential Hindu terror groups?

CNN-IBN’s Sagarika Ghose asked this on Face The Nation to Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi, BJP MP and editor-in-chief of The Pioneer Chandan Mitra, CPI-M MP Brinda Karat, and Samajwadi Party MP Virendra Bhatia.

Karat demanded that it is time the government acted against extremist Hindu groups. “A terrorist is a terrorist regardless of caste or creed. The Maharashtra Police has come to the conclusion through its investigation that a particular extremist Hindu outfit is responsible for bomb blasts. The Bajrang Dal has already been investigated and found guilty of bomb blasts,” she said.

The BJP and its associate groups rave and rant against Islamic terror. What’s their view on Hindu terror?

Hindu terrorism is the action of just a few people, who could be avenging Islamic terrorism, said Mitra. “Hindus are over 80 per cent of the population and it is quite possible that among them some individuals have attempted to avenge wide-spread jehadi terror which has been unleashed in the country for over 50 years. The law must take its course against them.”