Bhopal, June 20 (TNS): Indian major opposition party’s leader Digvijaya Singh’s ‘Hindu terror’ barb has triggered a row in election-bound Madhya Pradesh and left Congress reeling from what it sees as an own goal.
Digvijaya, appointed head of Congress Coordination Committee recently, is on a statewide Ekta Yatra in an effort to revive the party at the grassroots before the assembly polls, due in five months.
On last Saturday, he stirred the hornet’s nest by saying, “I have never said ‘Hindu terrorism’, I always used the term Sangh terrorism. No terror activity can be linked to religion because no religion supports terrorism.” Explaining the term ‘Sangh terror’, he told reporters, “Those accused in the Malegaon, Samjhauta Express and Mecca Masjid bomb blasts were influenced by Sangh ideology. RSS spreads violence, hatred and propagates terrorism.”
Two days later, speaking to a television channel, he reiterated his stand, saying: “All Hindu terrorists who were caught have links with RSS. Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, was also an RSS functionary. Their ideology spreads hatred, rears violence and from violence, breeds terrorism.”
