The Manufacturing Of ‘Hindu Terror’: New Book Reveals Sinister Plots Hatched By UPA’s High And Mighty

It was not just a casual comment by a leader then considered the crown prince of the Nehru-Maino dynasty. A lot of work has gone behind the scenes to fabricate the 'saffron/Hindu' terror. R V S Mani, former under-secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), in his new book Hindu Terror (2018) takes the reader on a detailed tour of the processes and mechanisms through which the strongmen in the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government created this formidable narrative. If even half of these accounts were true, and there is no reason to doubt their credibility, then India and Hindus are in serious trouble, where a very powerful section of their own polity and populace is hand in glove with their enemies.

The book through documents and details reconstructs how the then home minister P Chidambaram literally manufactured the 'Hindu terror'. The book makes a shocking read. Fortunately, it is a laborious read. If it were not so and if one grasps what the book actually reveals, it can give sleepless nights for any lover of this nation and society.

Mani reveals that there is a strong indication that somewhere high in the portals of power there was an attempt to portray even the 26/11 Mumbai attacks as the work of the so-called Hindu terror despite substantial evidence of Pakistan-based terror outfit executing the massacre. It can be recalled how some UPA leaders, including Digvijay Singh, the political mentor of Rahul Gandhi, unleashed a propaganda of conspiracy theories that suggested the role of Hindu terror behind 26/11.

A few days after the bloodshed, then chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh makes 'a customary visit' to terror attack spots - accompanied by film producers! With anguish, Mani asks, "Was he trying to sell this as a film plot is a question that often crops up. If so, had the political establishment partnered with the perpetrators and their supporters is another question that begs an answer”.

It is after page 106 that the chief villain of the piece enters. As P Chidambaram takes over the Home Ministry, he also creates NIA and Mani points out that 'it was all about introducing a new nonexistent Hindu Terrorism' concept. At the same time, the MHA and NIA were trying to excise statements of David Headley in order to make Ishrat Jahan killed in Gujarat encounter, innocent. Mani explains in detail.

But what did UPA government do?

Mani does not hesitate to name and shame the highest in power. He says that then home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde (2012-2014) 'pedalled public lie that the US government had been resisting any further access to David Headley.'

When NIA documentation was given to the media, vital portions of Headley’s testimony had been excised. But Mani points out that nevertheless a full 'tour report' comprising the complete Headley testimony was handed over to home minister Chidambaram. Simultaneously, the UPA government was absolving real terrorists, and allowing those who helped terrorists to escape by pulling strings. It did all this while fabricating false charges of Hindu terror in Malegaon (2006), Samjhauta Express blast (2007) and Mecca Masjid blasts (2007).

R V S Mani provides many disturbing instances.

After an affidavit signed by then home minister Chidambaram in the notorious Ishrat Jahan case, the same one that revealed her terror connections, appeared in the media, the minister, who was then in the United States, got distressed. Mani reveals:

In other words, the government was run by forces which wanted to destroy their political enemies and in the process colluded with Breaking India forces of the worst kind. And the latter amassed during the UPA decades the ability to strike at will at anyone and everywhere they chose between 2004 and 2014.

Today, many are criticising the Narendra Modi government for having done nothing towards the so-called ‘Hindutva’ agenda. But in contrast to how the citizens of India could be attacked at the will by the ‘Breaking India’ forces, anywhere of their choice, terrorism is today confined to Jammu and Kashmir . And for that we may have to thank the Modi-Ajit Doval team.

The current government has scored a big victory against the earlier government’s nefarious elements. It has by and large provided physical protection to ordinary citizens across the country. But the government seems to be struggling in its fight against the urban-Naxal and urban-jihadist sleeper cells - a gift from the previous regime.

Against this background, this book becomes important. It does need editing and is as terse as the author himself. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. This books needs to be debated. As said earlier, the book names and shames people. It should be translated into Indian languages. People should know how their previous government had scant regard for their lives. They should know that every vote to these pro-’Breaking India’ political forces is a bullet loaded into the assault rifle of a terrorist waiting to kill our own - somewhere, sometime.