Author: Pradeep Kumar
Publication: Hindu Voice
Date: September 2002
The CPM, led Left Democratic Alliance
(LDF) and the Congress United Democratic Alliance (UDF) of Kerala has only
one common enemy the RSS. Whenever they come to power they try to put,
all restrictions and impediments to arrest the growth of RSS and its affiliates
in the State. In order to appease the Muslim and Christian vote banks,
on whose shoulders the UDF came to power, the Chief Minister A.K.Antony
recently branded RSS, VHP, Hindu Aiyka Vedi (Hindu Unity Front), Bajrang
Dal, and Shivsena as terrorist organizations operating in the State in
the State Assembly.
Surprisingly, the Chief Minister
dared not to utter a word against the rabidly communal fundamentalist Muslim
organization, Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) and Muslim league, a partner
in the ruling coalition. It may be recalled that during the State assembly
elections the UDF had reached a tacit understanding with PDP not to disturb
its activities, if voted back to power. Several senior Congress leaders
visited PDP chairman, Abdul Nazer Mahdani at the Coimbatore prison (Tamil
Nadu) where he is detained under TADA for the Coimbatore bomb blasts which
was a plot to murder L. K.Advani.
Reacting sharply to the Chief Minister's
charge, noted scholar and RSS ideologue, P. Parameswaran challenged Antony
to produce evidence of terrorist activities undertaken by RSS. "If making
the Hindu conscious of their timeless culture and religion and urging him
to unite is terrorism, then RSS is proud to be called as terrorists", he
added The VHP, HUF and Shiv Sena, said that they were working within the
frame work of Indian constitution and their branding as terrorists is to
exonerate the Islamic and Christian fundamentalists operating in the State.
They demanded an apology from the CM for describing these organizations
as terrorists.
Several cultural leaders in the
State have condemned the inclusion of RSS and other Hindu organizations
in the list of terrorists. A memorandum signed by 20-eminent citizens of
the State seeking to omit. Hindu organizations from the list was submitted
to the CM.
In the 'Nadapuram explosions that
rocked the State, masterminded by the National Democratic Front (NDF),
a Muslim terrorist organization, several NDF workers were arrested for
making country bombs, pipe bombs, and steel bombs. But no concrete action
was taken against the culprits fearing Muslim backlash.
Recently on June 6th a powerful
explosion rocked Payanthong (Kozhikode, district) in the house of IUML
worker Moythu. Even though the investigating Dy. SP found that the explosion
took place while making bombs, the culprits were not arrested. In another
incident in the Jamat Mosque at Valayaam (Kozhikode district) the police
confiscated large quantities of arms and ammunition. There was 29 swords,
7 axes, 30 bombs, 37 catridges, 21 Kg of explosives, 94 country bombs and
large quantity of Sulphur, Phosporous. The police team headed by the then
Kozhikode rural SP, Rajesh Purohit found out that there was a pre-planned
strategy with the consent of the mosque committee to create trouble against
Hindus.
From the Jamaat Mosque at Kuttiyadi
(Kozhikode) also police could recover explosives and arms. Intelligence
sources who wants to be anonymous, are of the view that places of worship
in different parts of the State, particularly in the Northern districts
are being used by fundamentalists organizations to torment trouble.
The growth of NDF in the Muslim
dominated areas is noteworthy. As Antony rides on the shoulders of Muslim-Christian
lobby, the state government is not taking any serious action against the
fundamentalists. The hands of the Police are tied and recently 9 criminal
cases at Malappuram and 62 cases at Kozhikode against NDF were withdrawn
at the instance of IUML. In addition mo re than 400 Muslim fundamentalists
booked under several different cases are yet to be arrested! Indications
are that large-scale arms, money, ammunition are flowing to the hands of
Muslim fundamentalists of the State without any check. While power hungry
politicians turn a blind eye to these bare facts, fundamentalists are thriving
and expanding their operations.
The Chief Minister A.K.Antony has
become a prisoner of Muslim-Christian lobby which is evident from the fact
that he named RSS and other Hindu organizations as 'terrorists' without
even a single proof of any terrorist activity conducted by them. The Chief
Minister was simply repeating the Congress culture of succumbing to Christian-Muslim
fundamentalists.
