Combat the menace

To Dr Manmohan Singh,
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India
 

September 2, 2008

Our attention has been drawn to a serious situation arising out of the strengthening of some fascist organisations and the growing failure of the government to tackle them. The famous film producer Mr Mahesh Bhatt, Justice (retd) BG Kolse Patil, RB Sreekumar, former DGP, Gujarat, and Teesta Setalvad recently highlighted this matter. Their findings are attached herewith for your personal attention and some effective and conscious action.

It has been said that it is proved that there was a link between the 2007 blast cases in Nanded, Parbhani, Purna and Jalna. The recent barbaric attacks against Christians in Orissa are a direct result of instigation by known VHP-RSS leaders. Besides, names of the Sanatan Sanstha, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and Guru Kripa Pratisthan came up in the Thane and Panvel blasts in 2008. It is also a fact that the Jammu Sangharsh Samiti’s convenor, Leela Karan Sharma, and Swami Dharmesh are reportedly members of the Sanatan Sanstha.

Those at the press conference alleged that the above-mentioned neo-fascist organisations are engaged in getting training in arms, bomb-making and bomb explosion at the Bhonsala Military School in Nagpur. The Bajrang Dal is training people to attack minorities in different parts of the country. They are planting bombs in mosques in the guise of Muslim terrorists. An explosion took place in Laxman Rajkondwar’s house in April 2006 and he is an RSS activist. But the CBI is trying to conceal all such information to protect these fascists. They are ignoring clear leads on various blasts which distinctly identify sangh parivar activists. The recent Kanpur blast during bomb-making proved the involvement of the Bajrang Dal. The attack and killings of Christians in Orissa is planned and executed by the Bajrang Dal and a more dangerous trend is that more and more misguided people are joining in these communal attacks against minorities.

They also said that the CBI is planfully covering up these terror networks of majority communal forces. They indicated that the CBI is influenced by such communal activities. So instead of exposing and crushing them they are covering up their crimes. They asked certain valid questions which are very serious in nature and cannot be ignored at all. The attitude of soft communalism in some political forces and the administration is a dangerous challenge to the existence of minorities and the secular fabric of our country. They also demanded to constitute an official tribunal of three sitting Supreme Court judges to oversee the investigations into terror crimes. All types of terrorist activities – minority or majority – must be destroyed. They also proved that the Bajrang Dal and VHP are equally terrorist organisations with others which are active in the country and made a case for their ban.

In the interest of national unity and the integrity of our country and people, to protect all minorities in the country, to isolate and punish all kinds of fascist forces, to rescue government machinery from the influence of communal forces, to clear the CBI from the cloud of their role vis-à-vis communal fascists, you have to take serious action. I would request you to take personal initiative to face this new challenge by the neo-fascist forces.

I am forwarding the notes by these prominent persons for scrutiny and inquiry into all the issues raised in their notes marked "A" to "M". We need answers to all these questions and the government’s view, attitude and action on all these matters.

I hope you will look into it and take appropriate action and let the whole nation know in what way you are going to combat this menace.

Hannan Mollah