'Conspiracy to blame BJP, RSS for terrorist training'

In a rare occasion, the BJP and RSS were at loggerheads after senior members of the party accepted the apology issued by home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on his statement on the eve of the budget ses

Slamming the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) for giving a clean chit to Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and projecting India as a soft state, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said there was a conspiracy by the Congress to malign the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) by making allegations that these trained terrorists.

“Whatever Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said was not uttered without a thought. Congress party is knowingly indulging in vote-bank politics by giving communal colour to the issue of terrorism. Though the home minister apologised to save the Parliament session, this has been the policy of the Congress,” said BJP President Rajnath Singh today, while addressing the gathering at the party’s national executive and council meeting in Delhi.  

Singh said Congress leaders had always indulged in vote-bank politics at the cost of national interest, be it the issue of Batla House encounter or the release of a baseless book alleging 26/11 to be the conspiracy of the RSS.

“The UPA government has weakened the fight against terrorism by talking about Hindu terrorism. The same UPA government had given a detailed report about  the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the Samjhauta Express blast case, on the basis of which the US had banned the LeT. But due to political reasons, the UPA government concocted the story of ‘Saffron Terrorism’. The BJP is completely against giving any religious colour to terrorism,” Rajnath Singh said.

The senior BJP leader argued that India had to pay a heavy price for the mistake of the UPA government and home minister of blaming RSS-BJP of training terrorists that the LeT chief Hafiz Saeed wanted india to be declared a terrorist state.

“The UPA government itself gave an opportunity to Pakistan to accuse India on the issue of terrorism due to its vote-bank politics. The UPA government gave severe blow to India's fight against terrorism when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave up his own policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism in the wake of Mumbai attack in 2008 in the city of Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt. UPA government bended its knees before Pakistan in Sharm-el-Sheikh and accepted that Pakistan is also a victim of terrorism like India. The one-sided effort which the UPA government made for friendship despite not getting expected help from Pakistan projected the image of India as a soft state,” Singh said while talking to BJP members.