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Are all terror strikes outsourced, asks Congress

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday stepped up its criticism of the BJP for its “double standards” on terrorism and called for a multidisciplinary task force to examine the various dimensions of the results of the Malegaon blast probe.

Stressing particularly the disclosure by one of the suspects that the Malegaon operation was outsourced, Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said here that there was need to examine whether there was any link among the Indian Mujahideen, the Students Islamic Movement of India and various organisations affiliated/inspired by the Sangh Parivar such as the Hindu Jagran Manch, the Jai Vande Mataram, the Jankalyan Samiti and the Abhinav Bharat.

In a written statement read out at the briefing, the Congress raised the question: “Is it possible that the Delhi, Varanasi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Bangalore and Ahmedabad terror strikes were also the result of similar outsourcing?”

It must also be examined whether it was possible that the masterminds/financers of the various other terrorist strikes in the country were different from the executioners. “Were the foot soldiers really fronts in a perverted and cynical conspiracy?”

And, did the conspiracy to perpetrate and outsource the Malegaon terror strike end on the fringes or did it go deep into the heart of the Sangh Parivar, Mr. Tewari pondered. “It is after all incontrovertible that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activists have been killed while making bombs at Cheruvancherry in Kerala, Nanded in Maharashtra and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.”

Asked why the Congress was pressing for a multidisciplinary task force when Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad was doing a meticulous job, Mr. Tewari said: “We are asking for such a mechanism because the conspiracy is not limited to any one State and the linkages criss-cross the country.”

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