The RSS felt so menaced that general secretary Suresh Joshi wrote a six-page letter to the prime minister detailing the fact that the men at the centre of the blasts in Malegaon, Ajmer and Hyderabad are the very same men who were plotting to kill senior RSS leaders.
Smelling a political conspiracy to link it to “Hindu terror”, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) on Friday wrote to prime minister (PM) Manmohan Singh, demanding an “independent probe” into the connections of the Malegaon blast accused, and alleged that the probe into an assassination plot against RSS leaders by the same accused was being aborted.
The RSS rarely communicates with the government, but apparently it felt so menaced that general secretary Suresh Joshi wrote a six-page letter to Singh detailing the fact that the men at the centre of the blasts in Malegaon, Ajmer and Hyderabad are the very same men who were plotting to kill senior RSS leaders.
This plot was brought to the notice of the RSS by Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare in mid-October, 2008. He was killed by terrorists a little over a month later.
Quoting the January 2009 ATS charge sheet, Joshi pointed out that the accused in the Malegaon blast, Col Purohit and Dayanand Pandey, were organising a chemical attack on the then RSS general secretary Mohan Bhagwat, and had organised a fire-arm for murdering Bhagwat’s senior colleague Indresh Kumar.
These findings were corroborated by a military intelligence probe, Joshi reminded the PM.
Despite this, however, the ATS told the court last July that there was no specific plot to kill the RSS leaders, and said any investigation could await the end of the Malegaon trial. “This is virtually a decision to abort the probe into the conspiracy,” wrote Joshi.
“Was the investigation aborted because the exposure of the plot would foil any attempt to bracket the RSS with the Malegaon conspirators?”
Joshi’s letter also asserts that Col Purohit’s only link with the RSS was that of treachery; that Col Purohit “had mysteriously attempted to divide the RSS and its friendly organisations from within”. Suspecting a larger political conspiracy behind Col Purohit’s infiltration of the RSS in 2005, Joshi said the truth needed more than “a mere criminal investigation”.
Who the RSS suspects behind the larger conspiracy is no surprise: “Only those who would politically benefit from such strategies could have been behind him,” said Joshi. That could only mean the PM’s only party, the Congress, which is probably why Joshi has demanded “a thorough, independent investigation” to expose the conspirators’ “political agenda and connections”.
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