[mukto-mona] Subhash Gatade: PHONEY JIHADIS, REAL CULPRITS !

PHONEY JIHADIS, REAL CULPRITS ! by Subhash Gatade Ramvilas Vedanti, a senior leader of the VHP, refuses to remain out  of controversies for very long. If last year he was caught in a sting operation by CNN-IBN alongwith  many leading stalwarts of the spiritual world  'explaining how he  changes black money into white albeit with little bit of commission',  this year he reached headlines when he issued 'death sentence to Mr  Karunanidhi supposedly for 'insulting Lord Ram'. One still remembers  how he asked Muslims to 'vacate' the Parikrama area of Ayodhya after  the 'terrorist attack in Ayodhya' with a specious argument that their  presence in the area creates a feeling of insecurity. It is true that  if one were to  create a rating for making provocative statements  then there would not be much controversy over the fact that Vedanti  like his more famous colleagues in VHP is not very far behind. But the latest controvery is a bizarre one. On 30 th August he lodged a complaint with the Faizabad police  alleging that he is receiving death threats from SIMI and Al-Qaeda .  The district administration promptly provided him with additional  security and his mobile phone was placed under electronic  surveillance to track down the miscreants. And lo and behold ! Forget  Al Qaeda or SIMI, to everyone's dismay the police caught Ramessh  Tiwari, city president of Bajrang Dal in Katra and Pawan Pandey, a  local convenor of Hindu Yuva Vahini from Katra in Gonda district. The duo told the police that since their Guruji ( Ramvilas Vedanti)  was not getting Z category security as enjoyed by VHP leaders like  Ashok Singhal and Praveen Togadia, they took this step 'after Guruji  gave us the consent'. It was obvious that Vedanti did not press the  police to take any legal action against them and the duo was promptly  released. ( Indian Express, 15 th Sept 2008). One can just imagine the mayhem followers of Vedanti could have  created and how they could have tried to polarise the whole  atmosphere on communal lines if the police had not shown alertness. It was worth emphasising that recently a group of sadhus led by  Mahant Yugal Kishore Shastri, who is a Mahant of Saryu Kunj temple  which is adjacent to the disputed Ram temple in Ayodhya, demanded  legal action against Vedanti. A memorandum signed by 100 sadhus has  been despatched to the Chief Minister's office demanding immediate  arrest of Vedanti 'for conspiring to create communal violence in  Ayodhya and adjoining areas.' It is also learnt that since Vedanti,  an ex MP is also contemplating to contest the elections from Gonda,  he was keen to create a riot type situation there. A look down memory lane reveals that there was nothing 'creative' in  the complaint lodged by Vedanti with the local police. In fact he was  just copying one of his own colleagues from the Ram Mandir movement It was only last year that Anil Chamadia, a leading journalist, media  critic and social activist in his column on media affairs in the  hindi magazine 'Kathadesh' provided details of a similar case when  Mahant Nrityagopal Dal of the Ramjanambhoomi  Nyas supposedly  received a threat 'at the hands of the Al-Qaeda.' The newspapers also  took up the case of the threat received by him in a big way claiming  it to be a failure on part of the government to provide security to  'patriots'.Alongwith a fourty lined newsitem about this 'threat' a  separate box item was added giving details of Ashok Singhal's and  Praveen Togadia's reaction to the whole affair. Mr Purushottam Narayan, a leader of the VHP even claimed that a  'threat to the Mahant is a challenge thrown by Al-Qaeda before the  whole Hindu society which necessiates 'unity of Hindus at every level'. The very next day truth about the whole affair was out. Santosh, one  of the disciples of the Mahant was arrested in Haridwar and he  revealed that he had himself written this letter as his Guruji  (Nrityagopal Das) was not getting Z category security as enjoyed by  VHP leaders like Ashok Singhal and Praveen Togadia. It was worth  noting that the newspaper which had printed the 'threat received by  Nrityagopal Das did not deem it necessary to publish the denial of  the charges. One can just go on citing examples where close associates of the  saffron brigade engage in acts which go to stigmatise particular  communities and strengthening negative attitude towards them. While the followers of Vedanti or Nritya Gopal Das tried to utilise  and further buttress the threat posed by the likes of Al Qaeda or  SIMI their other brethren in the Hindutva brigade have no qualms in  engaging in real terrorist acts  by taking up a fake identity  resembling a member of a minority community. The Nanded bomb blast on 6 th April 2006 which killed two activists  of Bajrang Dal has demonstrated how these Hindu terrorists engage in  meticulous preparations to fake their identity. The fake beards and  clothes worn by the minority community recovered from the  perpetrators of the act demonstrated the modus operandi of these  fanatics. Sukhia Sab Sansar Khaye Aur Soye Dukhia Das Kabir Jagey Aur Roye     The world is 'happy', eating and sleeping The forlorn Kabir Das is awake and weeping

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