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‘Have clinching evidence of RSS training people to make bombs’ (Jul 24, 2011, Hindustan Times)

by newsdigest on July 25, 2011

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh reiterated on Sunday that he had clinching evidence of the RSS’ involvement in training people in bomb-making. He also accused the Madhya Pradesh government of interfering with the police probe, rejecting the charge that he was ‘communalising’ terror. Singh, however, denied that he had said Hindu outfits could be responsible for the Mumbai blasts, accusing the media of misreporting his statements.

The senior Congress leader also admitted that Congress president Sonia Gandhi had ticked him off when he had criticised home minister P Chidambaram’s Maoist policy in an article, adding that he then personally apologised to him. Singh told Karan Thapar in ‘Devil’s Advocate’ on CNN-IBN that the MP Police arrested RSS activists for throwing bombs in Mhow in 2002, and the RSS workers were killed making bombs in Nanded in 2006 and Kanpur in 2008. “I have evidence of Sangh involvement… video-recorded evidence where they accepted it. I have names on my mobile…. It is clinching evidence,” he said.

The Congress general secretary said RSS activist Sunil Joshi was involved in the Mhow case, and he was later killed by his own partymen. Singh said the Madhya Pradesh government was interfered in the probe, adding that he told Chidambaram about it. The case was later transferred to the National Investigation Agency. Denying charges of communalising terror, Singh alleged that it was BJP leader LK Advani who did so. “I absolutely reject this charge. People like Advani have communalised it. He went with PM’s delegation when Maharashtra ATS arrested Shreekant Purohit, Pragya Thakur, Dayanand Pandey and others in the Malegaon blast.”

Singh, however, denied that he had said Hindu outfits could be behind the Mumbai blast, saying, “I just repeated what the home minister said, that we cannot rule out any possibility. I have not mentioned Hindu outfits. Show me the byte. I am being misquoted.” On what he thought about Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari’s distancing himself from his remarks, Singh said: “I wish he had seen my statement… I said let us not interfere with the investigation.” Asked if his controversial statements were bringing Rahul Gandhi a bad name as he was his advisor, the AICC general secretary said, “I am neither an advisor nor a mentor to Rahul Gandhiji. Who has said that? None in my party has told me.”

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/725155.aspx

US based Indian American group denounces terrorist attacks in Mumbai

by publisher on November 30, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 27, 2008

Indian Muslim Council-USA (IMC-USA: http://www.imc-usa.org), an advocacy group dedicated towards safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, denounces in strongest possible terms the terror attacks in Mumbai, the financial capital of India. IMC-USA empathizes with the families of victims, hostages and police officers killed in the attacks and hopes for the safe release of the hostages.

According to reports, a series of bomb blasts and shootings in the city’s main train station, a hospital, luxury hotels and tourist attractions have killed and injured more than one hundred people. Dozens, many of them foreign tourists, are also reportedly taken hostage by these armed groups of young men at different locations. Several police personnel including Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare were also killed and many more injured while engaging the militants. Rasheed Ahmed, President of IMC-USA said: “The perpetrators of these crimes against humanity should be captured and punished to the maximum extent of the law.”

IMC-USA calls on the Indian government to find ways to increase the safety and security of ordinary citizens as well as provide immediate and adequate compensation to all the victims of this carnage. Recent years have witnessed an alarming growth in the number of groups committing mindless acts of violence against innocent civilians. In the past few months alone there has been a string of bomb blasts in many cities, ethnic cleansing and targeting of minorities, police harassment and scapegoating of innocent civilians and fake encounter killings. “The Home Minister is responsible for this widespread deterioration of law & order and security situation and should be held accountable”, stated Rasheed Ahmed.

The current attack also highlights the lapse in the intelligence gathering of the different law enforcement agencies. “More than two dozen terrorists seem to have let loose a string of blasts and shootings in different locations; a coordinated attack on this scale with the number of people involved points to a major failure on the part of the intelligence agencies”, he further added.

IMC-USA also calls on the Indian government to setup a high level commission to investigate the increasing scourge of violence and terrorism in the country and ways to engage the civil society in effectively curbing this menace.

Indian Muslim Council-USA is the largest advocacy organization of Indian Muslims in the United States with 10 chapters across the nation.

CONTACT:
Dr. Hyder Khan
phone/fax:1-800-839-7270
email: media@imc-usa.org

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Indian Muslim Council-USA condemns Bombay train blasts

July 10, 2006

July 11, 2006

Indian Muslim Council-USA, an advocacy group working toward safeguarding Indian society’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, condemned the multiple bomb blasts in Mumbai, India on July 11, 2006.

According to initial news reports received on July 11, 2006, more than 100 innocent lives were lost when multiple bomb explosions hit Bombay’s busy commuter rail network during busy rush hour.

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