Book of Integration Council New - Ministry of Home Affairs

at anybody. The issue is there have been lapses, they need to be corrected in the
country’s interest. So please take it in that spirit, it is not a question of pointing fingures
and accusing somebody. But if that is a case, the National Commission on Minorities
says that the State Governments have been soft on Bajrang Dal. If that is the case, then
surely it needs to be corrected and if such is the case again then certain, I mean, nondiscriminatory
yardsticks are not being applied, then that needs to be corrected
immediately. Because how you are tackling such activities from various organizations
of different religious denominations. So while this is happening on one hand, the terrorist
attacks on the other. These are very serious threat to our internal security and unity,
integrity of our country. I think all measures, this is needless to add, every one here
will support all measures that are required to beef up internal security, strengthening
the intelligence aparatus, modernizing your police and security forces. Various reports
have been made in the past towards this end but we will all support that these need to
be strengthened as well as measures must be taken to ensure that home grown terrorists
do not use lines beyond our borders for their activities and facilities and these also
need to be curbed. But at the same time as has been widely believed and perceived that
the terrorist response, one of the contributors for this terrorist response, all of us know
the various factors, one of the contributors has also been the perceived or the real
injustice felt by various religious minority groups. Now if this perception is there, this
needs to be immediately erased because sharpening of communal polarization feeds
unfortunately an impermissible terroristic response. And it is this duality, so to speak
one feeding the other that needs to be combated and this has to be done on the basis of
impeccable imparliality by the organs of the State. We all keep on stating but it is a fact
that terrorism knows no religion, it is simply anti-national. And I would like to draw
the attention of the NIC to the fact Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra is here, when
the bomb attack took place in Malegaon, when some Muslims were coming out of the
Ramzan fast, the DGP (Law and Order) was asked whether there is any reference or any
suspicion, that this could be a Hindu hardliner response. He says yes, that is
something that we can not rule out. Now if that is a case, I would like to draw the
attention of the National Integration Council to the fact, that police investigation in past
few years have noted the involvement of Bajrang Dal in various bomb blasts across the
country - 2003 in Parbani, Jalna and Jalgaon districts of Maharashtra, 2005 in Mau in
Uttar Pradesh, 2006 in Nanded, 2008 in the RSS office at the Tenkasi in Thirunelveli,
2008 in Kanpur. Now all these things point out to the fact that if this is correct and
which our belief is because this is on basis of the police investigation, then the action
against the Bajrang Dal, under the Unlawful Activities Act, must also be initiated.
And as I stated earlier the efforts to combat terrorism and internal security must be
strengthened, and organizations and individuals, irrespective of their religious denominations,
must be dealt with the some yardstick. No persecution of any community,
as widely perceived by the Muslim Minority, in the name of combating
terrorism, should be permitted. Sir, I wish to reiterate CPM’s understanding that
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