RSS ideologue worried over use of term 'Hindu terror'

RSS ideologue MG alias Baburao Vaidya, today expressed his worries about the usage of the newly coined term 'Hindu terror' appealing Hindu leaders to remove the blot.

"The word 'Hindu terror' has earned its place in the media and no one knows who invented it. Though somebody gives credit to NCP president Sharad Pawar and others says it was Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh who has coined the concept," Vaidya wrote in his weekly column in a local Marathi daily here.

He admitted that the government has accused the Abhinav Bharat and Sanatan Sanstha, a Goa based right wing Hindu organisation, are involved in violence and some arrests have been made but none of the accused have been convicted by the courts till date.

The term Hindu terror was being used to woo Muslim votes in the country and thereby defame the Hindus, he said.

Those who had earlier claimed that terrorism has nothing to do with religion were now tagging Hindu community with the term 'Hindu terror' to justify that terrorism was not just restricted to Islam but also to other religions (Hinduism), the article says.

Vaidya called upon all religious and social leaders to take initiative to remove the blot on the Hindus.

"Swami Vishweshatitha of Udipi, Dr Pandya of Gayatri Parivar, noted yoga guru Baba Ramdev and Dayanand Sarastwati of Coimbatore should tell the government to stop defaming the Hindus," he said.

"Should we call it Congress terror when 3000 Sikhs were massacred in Delhi during the 1984 riots which broke out after the assassination of Indira Gandhi," Vaidya asked.