Book of Integration Council New - Ministry of Home Affairs

The sudden spurt of terrorist attack in various parts of the country is a
cause of utmost serious concern. It poses a serious danger to our internal
security and the integrity of India. Such terrorist attacks need to be curbed by
strengthening our security and intelligence gathering apparatus. All measures
required to this end must be taken urgently. The question of modernization of
the police and other security forces must no longer be allowed to wait. It is the
responsibility of the Union Government to initiate the process of consultation
with the state government and address this issue urgently. There is also an
urgent need to take stringent measures to ensure that terrorist and militant outfits
do not use facilities beyond our borders for the purpose of conducting their
anti-national activities.
However, at the same time, it is also being widely believed that one of the
contributors to the recent spate of terrorist attacks is the real and perceived
injustice felt by the religious minorities in the country. Such sharpening of
communal polarization for political gains only feeds, unfortunately, the
impermissible terroristic response. While terrorism is simply unacceptable and
must be combated, this needs to be done on the basis of impeccable impartiality
by the organs of the State. Terrorism knows no religion. It is simply antinational.
The recent spate of terrorist attacks in Muslim dominated areas have
raised genuine suspicions of a Hindu hard line response to some Muslim terrorist
actions. The recent bomb attack in Malegaon where four Muslims were killed in
a locality crowded with people who had broken their ramzan fast buttress such
suspicions. When the media questioned the police whether Hindu hard liners
were suspected, Maharashtra's Additional Director General of Police (law and
order) said, "At this stage, we cannot rule out the possibility".
Police investigations in the past few years have noted the involvement of
Bajrang Dal or other RSS organizations in various bomb blasts across the
country - in 2003, in Parbani, Jalna and Jalgaon districts of Maharashtra; in
2005, in Mau district of Uttar Pradesh; in 2006, in Nanded; in January 2008, at
the RSS office in Tenkasi, Tirunelveli; in August 2008, in Kanpur etc etc. Internal
security of our country and be strengthened only when all such cases are also
probed impartially and with the same degree of intensity. Given this, action
against the Bajrang Dal under the Unalwful Activities Act must be initiated.
As stated earlier, all efforts to combat terrorism and internal security must
be strengthened. Most importantly, however, these activities must be conducted
in a spirit of utmost impartiality. Organisations and individuals found to indulge
in such terror activities, irrespective of their religious denomination must be
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