http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Like-Nazis-BJP-kills-Muslims-in-name-of-nationalism-Digvijay/articleshow/7129765.cmsNEW DELHI: Making a strong plea for stopping RSS on Sunday, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh accused BJP of killing Muslims in the name of nationalism like Nazis.
Digvijay Singh said RSS's "hatred" for Muslims was comparable to that of the Nazis towards Jews. "Why is it that all Hindus found involved in terror activities are members of RSS?" he added.
Taking cue, Congress on Sunday urged the government to investigate the links between terrorists and RSS affiliates, embracing Rahul Gandhi's hardline posture on Sangh Parivar whose senior cadre have allegedly been found involved in explosions at Muslim religious places.
The Congress plenary session adopted a political resolution which urged the government to tackle the menace of religious fundamentalism strongly and to probe the RSS-terror link as uncovered in recent cases. "Terrorism from wherever it comes and whatever form it takes must be dealt with firmly and effectively," the document said.
The resolution complimented the Centre for effectively tackling cross-border terrorism, noting that its vigilance had prevented major attacks, save Pune and Varanasi, after 26/11. RSS came under strong fire from the Congress. "RSS and VHP are insidious in their effort to break India," said the resolution.
Congress also touched upon Gujarat riots, urging the government to "relentlessly prosecute all those responsible for the unforgivable genocide that occurred in large parts of Gujarat in 2002." On Ayodhya, it repeated that the judgment of the Allahabad High Court did not condone the "crime" of demolition and that those responsible ought to be brought to book. At a meeting on Saturday to finalise the resolution, Rahul had suggested that the party should term the demolition as a criminal activity.
The frontal attack on RSS — communalism and terrorism — defied the belief that Congress would downplay the aggression in view of the recent controversy kicked off by AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh recently by giving the impression that he suspected the hand of Hindutva hardliners in the killing of former Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare.
After the recent Wikileaks expose about Rahul telling the US envoy that Hindu radical groups were a bigger threat than Lashkar-e-Taiba, the strong reaction from the saffron family led a section to believe that the party could softpedal the issue.
Significantly, the tone was set by Sonia Gandhi who said there was no distinction between organisations of majority and of the minority communities who indulged in communalism and terror.
The choice of Digvijay Singh to second the political resolution was also significant given his views on "saffron terror". Expectedly, he made a strong plea for checking RSS, saying the parochial mindset being promoted by it was the biggest challenge before the country. "Why is it that all Hindus found involved in terror activities are members of RSS," he asked.
He thanked home minister P Chidambaram for handing over to NIA the murder case of Sunil Joshi, the mastermind behind blasts on minority places. "MP police had closed the case and now the NIA has found that Joshi was killed by his own people because he knew too much," he said. Singh said RSS had infiltrated major institutions like bureaucracy and judiciary but the Malegaon blasts had dangerous portents as two armymen were been found involved in it.
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NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh launched a sharp attack on the RSS and the BJP, likening their "hatred" towards Muslims to that of the Nazis towards the Jews and claiming that the "roots of terrorism" in India lie in BJP leader L K Advani's 1990 'rath yatra'.
He also sought to take the battle over the 2G spectrum allocation issue into the opposition camp by alleging that the radiowaves scam originated under the NDA rule when late Pramod Mahajan was the telecom minister.
Singh said it was under Mahajan's tenure that allocation of spectrum was made on the first-come-first-serve basis as against the prevailing auction of circles.
In a hard-hitting speech, he also demanded fast-tracking of probe against two chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh who allegedly own assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. Singh, the AICC general secretary incharge of party affairs in UP, did not take any names.
There are disproportionate assets cases against chief minister Mayawati of BSP and former chief minister and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Hitting out at the RSS, Singh said "in the 1930s Hitler's Nazi party attacked the Jews... similarly the RSS ideology wants to capture power by targeting Muslims under the garb of furthering nationalism."Singh, who was seconding the political resolution moved by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee at the 83rd Congress plenary here, singled out senior BJP leader L K Advani for "sowing the seeds of division" among the Hindus and Muslims by undertaking the controversial 'rath yatra' in 1990.
He said the "demolition of the Babri Masjid...is the darkest patch in the history of India. The roots of terrorism in India lie in BJP leader L K Advani's rath yatra".
Accusing the BJP of maintaining that all Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims, Singh said, "can we apply the same logic and say that all Hindus are not terrorists but all Hindu terrorists arrested in various blast cases are RSS activists."
The RSS has been "sowing the seeds of Muslim hatred" in the minds of the new generation through 'Shishu Mandir' schools and "this is the biggest danger for us", he claimed.He claimed the RSS had made its activists enter the bureaucracy, police and even the army.Singh said the rise of RSS-BJP "ideology of violence and hatred" posed the "biggest challenge" before the nation. The other big challenges were the Communists and regional political parties, he said.
He said the Congress needs to take steps to convert into trust the mistrust in the minds "of our Muslim brothers".
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