To placate RSS, Rajnath Singh slams Cong for conspiracy to defame BJP, patrons

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

Singhs statement comes against the backdrop of a rebuke by the RSS, after party leaders accepted the apology issued by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on his statement on the eve of the Budget session of Parliament. Miffed over the actions of the BJP leaders, the RSS had said they would not accept such a statement from the home minister. However, BJP chief Rajnath Singh seems to have taken upon himself to placate the RSS.

Whatever the home minister said was not said without a thought. Congress party is knowingly indulging in vote-bank politics by giving communal colour to the issue of terrorism. Although the home minister has apologised to save the Parliament session but this has been the policy of the Congress, said Rajnath Singh, the BJP president, at his address during the three-day national executive and council meeting in Delhi.

Singh said that Congress leaders have always indulged in the vote bank politics at the cost of national interest whether it was the issue of Batla house encounter or the release of baseless book alleging 26/11 to be the conspiracy of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

UPA government has weakened the fight against terrorism by talking about Hindu terrorism. The same UPA government had given a detailed report about Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Samjhauta Express blast on the basis of which US had banned LeT. But due to political reasons suddenly by overlooking many important facts the UPA government concocted the story of saffron terrorism. 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 itself gave an opportunity to Pakistan to accuse India on the issue of terrorism. The UPA government gave severe blow to India's fight against terrorism when 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, he added.