Bhubaneswar-09/07/22- Today AICC leader Wg Cdr Anuma Achrya attacked the BJP about their connection with terrorist in series of incidents across the country and asked them to answer whether these are simply Sanyog or Prayog? In a press conference held in Congress Bhawan today she said
The Indian National Congress does not believe in playing politics over serious national issues like terrorism. However multiple revelations of close links between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and individuals caught in terror activities force us to ask some straight questions of a ruling party that loses no opportunity to preach to Indians about nationalism.
• It recently emerged that one of the accused in Kanhaiya Lal’s horrific murder in Udaipur was a BJP worker named Mohammad Riyaz Attari. He had joined the BJP in the presence of a senior local leader. Media reports state that Attari was employed by the son-in-law of the BJP’s Leader of the Opposition in the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha, Gulab Chand Kataria. He was seen attending numerous party programmes in the presence of senior BJP leaders.
• Recently, Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Talib Hussain Shah who had been captured by locals was revealed to be a BJP office-bearer in Jammu and Kashmir. Shah had previously been seen in photos with Home Minister Amit Shah and other senior BJP leaders. When arrested, he had been planning attacks on the Amarnath Yatra.
• The media has also reported that the Irfan Khan, accused of masterminding the murder of Amravati chemist Umesh Kolhe, had close links with the “independent” MP Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana. Everyone knows the relationship between the Ranas and the BJP. Irfan Khan is known to have campaigned and sought votes for the Ranas.
• Former BJP leader and ex-Sarpanch Tariq Ahmad Mir was arrested in 2020 for procuring weapons for Hizbul Mujahideen commander Naveed Babu. Naveed Babu had previously been arrested with DSP Davinder Singh and accused of supplying weapons to terrorists. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has confirmed that Mir is an associate of Davinder Singh’s. The truth would have come out had the Davinder Singh inquiry been carried through to its conclusion, but it was halted midway.
• In 2017, the Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested the BJP IT Cell member Dhruv Saxena along with 10 accomplices for spying for the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate. The spy ring had set up an illegal telephone exchange to facilitate espionage. A picture of Saxena with Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan also went viral.
• Two years later Balram Singh, a Bajrang Dal leader from Madhya Pradesh, was arrested in a terror funding case.
• In 2017, a special court of the NIA sentenced Assam BJP leader Niranjan Hojai to life imprisonment. He was found to have participated in an Rs 1,000 crore scam, which were diverted government funds to support a militant group. The funds were to be used to buy weapons and carry out attacks on our security forces.
• The BJP has also knowingly gave a ticket to Masood Azhar’s acolyte Mohammad Farooq Khan to contest the Srinagar municipal election from Ward 33. Khan was previously a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.
The BJP government has the dubious distinction of having released the dreaded terrorist Masood Azhar in 1999 during the Kandahar hijacking. Azhar went on to found the Jaish-e-Muhammad terror group that was responsible for the 2001 Parliament attack and the 2008 Mumbai attacks that caused hundreds of deaths. The Jaish also masterminded for the 2019 Pulwama attack in which 44 CRPF personnel died after 200 kg of high explosive including RDX somehow made it past multiple security checkpoints. Why an inquiry into Pulwama has not been held remains a mystery.
Among others Sri Ganeswar Behera, Chairman, PCC Media Cell, Sri Satya Prakash, Convener, PCC Media Cell, Sri Amiya Pandav, Spokesperson, PCC, Sri Rajani Kumar Mohanty, Spokesperson, PCC, Sri Abhishek Mahananda, Chairman, Social Media PCC, Chinmay Sundar Das, General Secretary, PCC and Sri Deepak Kumar Mohapatra, Media Co-ordinator, PCC were present along with her in this press conference.
