Shinde links RSS, BJP camps to ‘Hindu terror’

Shinde links RSS, BJP camps to ‘Hindu terror’

BJP Wants Sonia To Apologise

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Jaipur/New Delhi: Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Sunday kicked up a storm by accusing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the BJP of conducting training camps promoting Hindu “terrorism” in the country. The main opposition party hit back, saying the remarks were an attempt to divide the nation, and sought an apology from Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
    “They are talking about infiltration but we have this report that whether it is BJP or RSS, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism,” Shinde said at the Congress conclave in Jaipur. “We are keeping a strict eye on it. The Samjhauta Express blast, Mecca Masjid (blast), Malegaon blast — they are planting bombs and blaming minorities for it. We need to be careful for safety of our country.”
    This is probably the first time that a senior member of the government has publicly sought to link terrorism with religion. The government has been chary of using terms like Islamic terrorism. Shinde directly linked BJP and RSS with groups like Abhinav Bharat, which is charged with the Malegaon and Samjhauta blasts.
    Earlier, when P Chidambaram was home minister, there were angry exchanges between him and BJP MPs in the Rajya Sabha after the Congress leader said the government was going to pursue a zero tolerance policy against both jihadi and Hindu terrorism. The BJP sought to know why he refrained from using the term “Islamic terrorism” even though he used the words Hindu terrorism during his reply to the debate on the internal security.