Author: Pramod Kumar
Publication: Organiser
Date: September 28, 2008
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=256&page=4
Sangh workers rush to rescue
The five serial blasts in Delhi on September
13 left over 25 dead and over 100 injured at three places-Gaffar Market, Greater
Kailash Market and two places in Connaught Place including Barakhamba Road
and Palika Bazar. Four live bombs were defused in Connaught Place and India
Gate areas.
Soon after the blasts, the RSS swayamsevaks
rushed to the blast sites and different hospitals where the victims were taken
within an hour of the incident. RSS Delhi Prant Sanghachalak Shri Ramesh Prakash
Sharma phoned the Police Commissioner Shri Y.S. Dadwal and offered him every
kind of help from the Sangh. Following this request Shri Sharma continued
to receive various requests from the police authorities throughout the night.
Karol Bagh DCP specially thanked Shri Sharma for extending help.
Besides Shri Ramesh Prakash Sharma, Shri Ajay
Kumar, Sewa Pramukh of Delhi and Shri Rishipal Dadwal of Sewa Bharati monitored
the relief activities overnight.
According to Shri Ramesh Prakash Sharma, more
than 57 units of blood was donated in the night of September 13 only by the
swayamsevaks. "In all the hospitals, where the victims were taken for
treatment, our swayamsevaks met the hospital authorities and offered help.
The victims, who were alone, were provided special help including monitory
help. Some swayamsevaks also helped the relatives of the victims in finding
the dead bodies," he said. "I was in the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
A victim, Banarasi, s/o Shri Harishchandra, was alone and his family members
were not aware of his injuries. I informed his family members in jhuggi-basti
of Gaffar Market and took his mother and sister to the hospital," said
Shri Kulbhushan Ahuja, a Sewa Bharati worker.
The swayamsevaks helped the victims at all
hospitals including Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Lady Harding, Jessaram, Gangaram
and AIIMS. More than 300 swayamsevaks from different areas of Delhi went to
various hospitals for blood donation. But only 58 units were taken. Shri Ramesh
Prakash Sharma called upon the people of Delhi to have patience and not to
pay attention to rumours. He also consoled the families of the victims and
directed the swayamsevaks to extend all possible help to the families of those
killed in the blasts. Shri Sharma also appealed to the government to enact
a stern law to combat terrorism so that such incidents are not repeated in
future.
Meanwhile, VHP president Shri Ahsok Singhal
visited the blast site in Gaffar Market on September 16 and also the Ram Manohar
Lohia Hospital to meet the blast victims. After visiting the hospital he expressed
satisfaction over the treatment the victims received there. Talking to Organiser,
he said the blasts snatched the bread earners of many poor families. He said
the Hindu society is at war with Pakistan. It is a proxy war. If it continues
the people would not get even safe drinking water and food. The whole Hindu
society should think about it, he added.
He further said as long as this UPA government
exists with anti-national ministers like Ramvilas Paswan who want to give
citizenship to three crore Bangladeshis and describe the terrorist organisations
like SIMI as patriots and demand ban on the nationalist organisations like
RSS, such incidents will continue to take place. He said the people who support
terrorism in any form have no right to live in this country. He alleged that
the UPA government has been providing patronage to the anti-nationals. "If
the government is serious in combating terrorism it must give some positive
indications. The ministers like Paswan must be removed from the cabinet immediately.
The VHP is fully with the government in the fight against terrorism,"
he said pointing out that the Bajrang Dal would now form suraksha samitis
at block levels involving ex-servicemen.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Shri L.K.
Advani, Delhi BJP president Dr Harsh Vardhan, Leader of Opposition in Delhi
Assembly Prof. Jagdish Mukhi along with other leaders also visited the Ram
Manohar Lohia Hospital to meet the blast victims. They expressed their heartfelt
sentiments for the persons who died or injured in the blasts.
Talking to Organiser after visiting the hospital,
Dr Harsh Vardhan said the terrorists could not have succeeded if the Delhi
and central governments had learnt a lesson from the October 2005 blasts and
heeded the Gujarat Chief Minister's repeated warnings about the imminence
of a terrorist strike. The money of Delhi's taxpayers was wasted on bogus
security measures. The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA),
which has been in force in Delhi since 2003, was deliberately not applied
to bust terrorist cells and apprehend those responsible for the 2005 blasts.
It is well known that the Congress party is abetting terrorism in India. Vote-bank
considerations led the UPA government to scrap the Prevention of Terrorism
Act (POTA), which was enacted by the BJP-led NDA government in 2002, he added.
He said Sheila Dikshit government of Delhi
and UPA government at the Centre had promised a lot of safeguards against
terrorism in 2005, but they did not carry them out. In 2005, the government
had promised that CCTV monitoring would be introduced in crowded places along
the lines of London. However, though CCTVs were initially introduced at a
few places, these were only exercises carried out to get media attention.
Afterwards, no follow up was done. On September 13 also the government's criminal
apathy was in full view. The entire country was shamed before the world when
it was seen that the CCTV cameras set up in Connaught Place were either out
of order or placed in useless angle. There was no control room with monitors
and dedicated personnel. Representatives of the international media have begun
to doubt whether the Indian government is at all interested in protecting
its citizens from terrorism, he added.
