The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) knocked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s door demanding a “fair, objective, impartial and independent” inquiry into attempts made to malign the organisation in cases of terrorism.
Senior RSS leader Ram Madhav on Monday met officials from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and submitted a letter written by General Secretary Suresh Bhaiya Joshi alleging a malicious campaign against the RSS.
Madhav asked for an independent investigation into the "political conspiracy" to "destabilise the RSS" following allegations of RSS members’ involvement in cases of Hindu terrorism.
"The accused can say anything. It has zero value. Such statements will be contested in the court of law. Why are the agencies indulging in selective leakage of statements? They are supposed to be confidential. We have always said that Mr Indresh Kumar or any other RSS member does not have any role in the blasts," said Madhav, after submitting the letter.
Joshi’s letter urges the PM to take an objective view on investigations into the Malegaon, Ajmer, and Hyderabad blasts in which RSS functionaries, former and serving -- including senior pracharak Indresh Kumar -- have been implicated. He stressed that the RSS should not be clubbed with “Abhinav Bharat” just because it is a Hindu organisation.
The letter refers to a charge-sheet filed by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on 20 January 2009 in the Malegaon blast case, in which a transcript of conversation between the two accused -- Colonel Purohit and Dayanand Pandey -- shows their plot to kill RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Indresh Kumar with "chemical weapons".
The letter alleges that the ATS deliberately suppressed this "explosive" evidence in its submissions to the Bombay High Court because that would have foiled its efforts to bracket the RSS with the Malegaon "conspirators."
Joshi, therefore, stressed that the PM should set up an "impartial and independent" inquiry into the "hidden mission" of Purohit and his associates, and differentiate between the accused members and other RSS volunteers.
The letter sent to the PMO on Thursday stressed on the "nation building" work done by RSS volunteers for which the organisation has been lauded in the past by former Presidents of India and late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
It even mentioned Jawaharlal Nehru's "endorsement" of the constructive role of RSS despite his "serious differences" with the organisation and his invitation to "swayamsevaks" to show up at the 1963 Republic Day parade.
Without naming the Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh, the letter decries his "vicious" campaign against "saffron terror".
Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari also endorsed the RSS stand that its volunteers are being acted upon with a revenge motive to divert attention from the government's corruption.
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