Both PC and Congress hailed for Saffron terror remark
The recent 'saffron terrorism' remark from the Minister of Home Affairs P Chidambaram and the official rebuttal of the Congress on it that 'terrorism has no color', both deserve appreciation from the secular India.
THE RECENT ‘Saffron terrorism’ remark of the Minister of Home Affairs, P Chidambaram and the official rebuttal of the Congress on it that ‘terrorism has no colour’, both deserve appreciation from secular India. The former because it is the first high level endorsement of the reality from no one less than the home minister of the country himself that there exists a Hindutva inspired terrorism on the Indian soil and the latter because it is a fact that when ‘terrorism’ sets an ambush and kills innocent people, it hardly represents any color but that of blood, the color of violence, the color of destruction. Perhaps, in most cases of terrorist blasts, there existed clear hints that ‘someone else’ must have been there behind such heinous acts, than the faces shown to public. We salute martyred Hemant Karkare, who became immortal in history by his great service to the nation, when those stray hints caught his imagination and he and his team boldly pursued the right course of investigation and brought to the fore what others were already labeling and now PC has called, the so termed ‘saffron terrorism’.
On the ‘saffron’ mention of the home minister at the inauguration of a three-day meet of police chiefs of various states and security agencies in the national capital, the BJP’s reaction was that it is an ‘insult to the nation’. A number of organizations inspired by Hindutva philosophy are raising the demand of his removal from the ministry for this unusual comment. Several editorials in print media and the line taken by a few channels reveal anguish of a section of the country on leveling ‘saffron’ with ‘green’ since it belies the assiduously made-believe saying that “All Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims”. His remark also takes us to the ignored history of terrorism in India.The first terrorist attack in independent India was committed on 20 January 1948. Common memory goes that a fanatic Hindu youth Nathuram Godse assassinated the great national leader Mahatma Gandhi on the fateful day of 30 January of that year. The reality is that a team of Hindu youth was attempting since 1934 to do so, and it was the ninth attack in a row which succeeded. However, the details of the eighth attempt, the second after independence and just 10 days before the callous crime, indicates something else. According to the conspiracy, fully exposed subsequently by the police, on January 20, a group of seven youth headed by Godse and comprising Madanlal Pahva, Digambar Bagde, Shankar Kishtaiyya , Vishnu Karkare, etc were supposed to work in synergy to throw three bombs, one behind the podium from where Gandhiji was to address his routine assembly at Birala temple, another one on the national leader himself besides being shot and the last one on the attending audience to generate commotion and chaos for staging a safe escape from the crime scene.
On that day Nathuram Godse could not be arrested and moved from the national capital to come back within 10 days and attain again his target on the saddest day of the newly freed country. May be, one may regard it a political murder and not an act of terrorism as we comprehend by the term today. But, what exactly the terrorists do? They use force to drive home some political points, they kill innocent people along with their actual targets, they target uninvolved people when their targets are not soft and they use their act as deterrent to others and the like.
On the ‘saffron’ mention of the home minister at the inauguration of a three-day meet of police chiefs of various states and security agencies in the national capital, the BJP’s reaction was that it is an ‘insult to the nation’. A number of organizations inspired by Hindutva philosophy are raising the demand of his removal from the ministry for this unusual comment. Several editorials in print media and the line taken by a few channels reveal anguish of a section of the country on leveling ‘saffron’ with ‘green’ since it belies the assiduously made-believe saying that “All Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims”. His remark also takes us to the ignored history of terrorism in India.The first terrorist attack in independent India was committed on 20 January 1948. Common memory goes that a fanatic Hindu youth Nathuram Godse assassinated the great national leader Mahatma Gandhi on the fateful day of 30 January of that year. The reality is that a team of Hindu youth was attempting since 1934 to do so, and it was the ninth attack in a row which succeeded. However, the details of the eighth attempt, the second after independence and just 10 days before the callous crime, indicates something else. According to the conspiracy, fully exposed subsequently by the police, on January 20, a group of seven youth headed by Godse and comprising Madanlal Pahva, Digambar Bagde, Shankar Kishtaiyya , Vishnu Karkare, etc were supposed to work in synergy to throw three bombs, one behind the podium from where Gandhiji was to address his routine assembly at Birala temple, another one on the national leader himself besides being shot and the last one on the attending audience to generate commotion and chaos for staging a safe escape from the crime scene.
On that day Nathuram Godse could not be arrested and moved from the national capital to come back within 10 days and attain again his target on the saddest day of the newly freed country. May be, one may regard it a political murder and not an act of terrorism as we comprehend by the term today. But, what exactly the terrorists do? They use force to drive home some political points, they kill innocent people along with their actual targets, they target uninvolved people when their targets are not soft and they use their act as deterrent to others and the like.
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