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- Defamation case filed against Shinde for ‘Hindu terror’ remarks (23 Jan 2013)
- LeT chief Hafiz Saeed praises Shinde's terror remark (Jan 22, 2013)
- Congress defends Shinde on Hindu terror remark (Jan 21, 2013)
- RSS, BJP running camps to spread Hindu terror : Sushilkumar Shinde (Jan 20, 2013)
Defamation case filed against Shinde for ‘Hindu terror’ remarks
January 23, 2013New Delhi : A defamation case has been filed against Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in a Delhi Court for his remarks linking BJP and RSS to Hindu terrorism.
The petition, filed by a Delhi resident V P Kumar through his counsel Monika Arora, said that the Home Minister had “wilfully” made the “derogatory” remarks to cause ill will and hatred among communities.
“The complaint has been filed before the Metropolitan Magistrate Amitabh Rawat, who has fixed the matter for further consideration on January 28,” Arora said.
Kumar in his petition alleged that Shinde’s remarks weer aimes at polarising minority votes for the 2014 general elections.
“The impugned statement is not only defamatory in its natural meaning but also contains the imputation and
insinuation that Hindu religion is involved in anti-national and terrorist activities,” the petition said adding the minister “has used the words saffron as synonyms of terrorism, which is totally absurd, wrong, mischievous and defamatory”.
Addressing the AICC meeting at Jaipur on Sunday, Shinde had said, “…we have got an investigation report that be it RSS or BJP, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism. We are keeping a strict vigil on all this”.
Source : Firstpost
LeT chief Hafiz Saeed praises Shinde's terror remark
January 22, 2013New Delhi : Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's claim that BJP and RSS were running terror camps in the country has given a handle to the Mumbai 26/11 mastermind in Pakistan, Hafiz Saeed, to make demands like declaring India a 'terrorist state' and a ban on BJP and RSS.
Saeed wrote on Twitter that India's home minister had finally 'spoken the truth' and the world should take notice and declare India a state supporting terror on its soil, after Shinde's 'candid confession'. "Pakistan should raise this (Shinde confession of BJP and RSS terrorist camps) in UNSC and OIC. It is imperative to note that an organisation that has been sworn in government previously is maintaining terror camps and killing Muslims. The world should take immediate notice in an unbiased manner and ban these terrorist organisations," Saeed wrote on Twitter.
Later in the day, he held a press conference where he said that the Indian 'propaganda' against Pakistani organisa-tions of spreading terror stood 'exposed' and alleged it was Indian organisations which were behind all kinds of terrorism in Pakistan. "India tried to involve us in the Mumbai attacks but after a passage of five years, nothing has been established against us in the courts," said Saeed, against whom US declared a bounty of $10 million for his involvement in terrorist acts, including the 26/11 attacks.
The Jamat-Ud-Dawa, which Saeed heads, also praised Shinde for his comments and said he had dared to speak what was 'obvious'.
Shinde ,however, did not retract his comments. "I have already said yesterday (Sunday) what I had to say," Shinde said. A source in the National Investigation Agency, probing all right-wing extremism cases, however, said there was no concrete evidence to suggest that BJP or RSS had directly run any terror camps in the country. The source said that there was a terror camp organised by an ex-RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi in Bagli village near Dewas in Madhya Pradesh in the early months of 2006, where many right-wing extremists like Ramji Kalsangra, Lokesh Sharma, Rajendra Chaudhary, Kamal Chauhan and Dhan Singh were trained in making IEDs. All these men were later involved in bomb blasts in Malegaon in 2006 and blasts in the Samjhauta Express, Ajmer Sharif and Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad and many of them have been arrested by NIA.
"However, there is no clear proof to suggest that RSS or BJP ran or backed these camps. But this is true that the persons trained at these camps were former RSS cadre or still associated with RSS, when they underwent training," a source in the NIA told ET. A home ministry official said Shinde's statement should be read in the context that he was attempting to say that terrorism in India is not just the handiwork of Islamic radicals but right-wing extremists as well. "When Shinde said that Islamic fundamentalists were wrongly blamed for the blasts in Malegaon, Samjhauta Express or Mecca Masjid, he is stating a fact that these blasts were actually engineered by right-wing radicals, under arrest now. We have informed Pakistan officially that right-wing extremists in India were behind the Samjhauta blasts that left 67 Pakistanis dead,"
A home ministry official said. However, the official added that Shinde should have avoided mentioning the term 'saffron terror' as Congress had earlier decried the use of such a term by former home minister P Chidambaram. Also, the government is now finding it difficult to back with proof Shinde's claim that BJP and RSS have run terror camps.
Source : IBN
Congress defends Shinde on Hindu terror remark
January 21, 2013The Congress yesterday defended Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde who provoked the BJP by saying its ideological mentor RSS was promoting Hindu terrorism in its training camps.
“After investigations, we have seen that be it the BJP or the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism. This is a matter of concern,” Shinde said at the All India Congress Committee session here.
“We have known this for long. Shinde had the courage to say it,” Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said. “There is no Hindu or Muslim terrorism. What he meant was right wing terrorism,” said Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla.
The BJP said Congress leaders should apologise for making the statement.
Source : Mid Day
RSS, BJP running camps to spread Hindu terror : Sushilkumar Shinde
January 20, 2013Paush Shuklapaksha 9, Kaliyug Varsha 5114
First Sushilkumar Shinde should talk about what he is doing on the issue of beheading of Indian soldiers by Pakistanis ? By making such irresponsible statements, Shinde is not only insulting RSS and BJP but also insulting community of Hindus. Now Hindus should unite and protest against Shinde lawfully !
Jaipur (Rajasthan) : In a statement that is expected to erupt a huge political row, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Sunday, "The RSS and BJP are running terrorist training camps to spread Hindu terrorism."
He mentioned the Samjhauta Express and Malegaon blasts to further enhance his point as he addressed Congress workers at the ongoing Chintan Shivir in Jaipur. He said that BJP's " cultural nationalism" is actually a weapon to divide the country.
His speech was disastrous, to put it mildly.
In fact, while trying to eulogise Congress President Sonia Gandhi, he turned to sycophancy and even embarrassed many Congressmen in the audience. The Marathi-speaking Shinde was speaking in Hindi without the proper construct of ideas or even sentences.
He crudely said that how a Dalit like him was made a Leader of the Opposition by Sonia Gandhi. He even read out a list of Muslim, Dalit and Other Backward Class leaders from the dais saying that the Congress takes care of them. The list included Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to Shankeranand. (Such statements of Sushilkumar Shinde are spreading casteism and separatism among citizens of India. Now Indians should force him to resign from his post of Home Minister !)
He also made a mention of Ghulam Nabi Azad and Salman Khurshid, who hold powerful posts in the party and the government (Union health minister and external affairs minister respectively), but not because they are Muslims.
Surely, Congress managers wanted some doze of the BJP-RSS bashing and may be they wanted to highlight how the Congress is not for the " Brahmin-Baniya" social clique. But, Shinde sent the wrong message by comparing Congress with an amoeba.
The Congress is boasting that around 40 per cent participants at the event are young, but Shinde's speech was neither suitable for the young nor for the older leaders of Congress where he highlighted the importance of caste and communal identity to rise in the party.
"He was not aware of what he is saying," said a member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh.
Source : Rediff
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