11-11-2010, 01:38 AM
[url="http://www.dailypioneer.com/295536/Outraged-RSS-holds-nation-wide-protest-against-terror-tag.html"]Outraged RSS holds nation-wide protest against terror tag[/url]
Quote:Hundreds of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activists, led by their top leaders, Wednesday staged protests in several places across India against the central government's alleged "political conspiracy" to link the group to terror activities.
Protests were held in various state capitals and district headquarters, RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav told IANS.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat led the protestors in Lucknow while general secretary Suresh Joshi addressed a rally in Hyderabad. Demonstrations were also held across Punjab, Haryana and Orissa.
In Delhi, MPs Prakash Javadekar and Balbir K. Punj were among those who participated in the sit-ins.
The protests come in the wake of RSS leader Indresh Kumar and other activists being named in the chargesheet in the Ajmer blast case -- three people were killed and 30 injured when explosives kept in a tiffin box exploded at the shrine of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chisthi Oct 11, 2007.
Addressing protestors in Lucknow, Bhagwat said the cases and allegations against the RSS were "baseless and politically motivated".
Even as Bhagwat went on to claim that no RSS activist could be even remotely connected with acts of terror, he disowned all those who were suspected to be involved in such acts.
"Such Hindus who were found to have been associated with terrorist activities could not be even remotely associated with RSS," he said in the speech.
Holding a brief for those against whom there was incontrovertible evidence, the RSS chief sought to add: "I am sure they were falsely implicated."
He also came out strongly in defence of Indresh: "The fact that the investigating agencies had failed to find any concrete evidence against Indresh proved our point that he was being falsely implicated simply because the UPA government wanted to give us a bad name."