Terror At Home Has Pak Support: Not A Fallout Of Gujrat Riots

NARENDRA MODI, CM , GUJRAT

SHAKEEL AHMAD, SPOKESPERSON, CONGRESS

It is a case of extreme irresponsibility and dangerous when the birth of Indian Mujahideen is linked to Gujrat riots of 2002. Shakeel Ahmed is not alone to hold this view but there are many like in the Congress Party and in other so called ‘secular’ political parties who blame it on Gujarat for terrorists’ adventures in India.

Ahmed says it is not his view but he has quoted the report of NIA (National Investigating Agency) in which it says that Indian Mujahideen was a fall out of Gujrat riots. The NIA might have erred in finalsing report to please the government of the day. But before coming to any such erroneous conclusion, the NIA should have cared to look into the files of the Intelligence Bureau of India.

It is a known fact that IM is another name of SIMI (Students of Islamic Movement in India). It was in early 1977 when some hardliners perceived and formed SIMI in Aligarh. The outfit was to enforce the Islamic Code amongst the Muslims in India in their day to day life. The Government found that SIMI was involved in terrorism in the country. Subsequently, in 2007, the Supreme Court of India declared SIMI as a secessionist organization. Soon after the terrorists attack of 9/11 in the United States, SIMI was declared a ‘terrorist organisation’. It was banned in 2008.

It was reported in the past that conferences and meetings of SIMI were held in five star hotels. The question is who funded the outfit? Apparently, money was pumped into the outfit from across the border, the Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan Army. It is said that SIMI also received huge donations from rich Arab World, Saudi Arabia in particular.

Once SIMI was banned, the activists of the terror outfit including their leaders regrouped under the umbrella of Indian Mujahideen with the active support of the ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan. The IM took responsibility for the blasts in Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Delhi in 2008.

Before shooting their mouth out, Congress leaders should check the facts. One can understand the desperation and nervousness in the ruling party camp following Narendra Modi’s projection as the top BJP leader and a front runner for the Prime Minister’s office in case the NDA is voted to power in 2014.

But desperation of the Congress will not vanish by just playing the communal card. On the contrary it will only aggravate the woes of the ruling Party at the Centre.

~R. K. Sinha