Thiruvananthapuram, 31 July(HS): The Hindu Janajagruti Samithi (HJS), an umbrella organisation of all Hindus who want the establishment of Hindu Rashtra, welcomed the NIA Court verdict acquitting all the persons including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur a former Lok Sabha member of the BJP, Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit, Major Upadhyaya, Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Sameer Kulkarni and Ajay Rahirkar who were arrested and imprisoned for years without any evidence.

Ramesh Shinde, National Spokesperson, HJS, pointed out that Thursday’s court verdict buried once and for ever the politically motivated narrative of “Hindu Terror” and “Saffron Terror”, terms propagated by the Congress.

“Merely because they were Hindus, patriotic individuals like Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Colonel Purohit, Major Upadhyaya, Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Sameer Kulkarni and Ajay Rahirkar were imprisoned for years without evidence. They were subjected to brutal physical and mental torture. This was not merely an injustice against these individuals. It was a larger calculated effort to defame the entire Hindu society,” said Shinde in his statement released on Thursday.

Shinde wanted the Government not to be content with the verdict. “Those who conspired to label Hindus as terrorists must now face strict legal punishment. The term Hindu Terror was infamously coined by the then union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, who later publicly admitted it was a mistake,” said the HJS spokesperson.

Shine also reminded the nation what Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Congress Party, has been trying to impress upon the world that Hindu terrorism was a bigger threat to India than Pakistan-backed Islamic terror.

RVS Mani, a former bureaucrat in the Ministry of Home Affairs, has given a vivid account of how the Congress-led UPA Government that ruled the country during 2004 to 2014 had worked overtime to whitewash all Islamic terrorism and present the same as Saffron Terrorism in his book HINDU TERROR. The book published by Vitasta had jolted the bigwigs of the Congress Party, of which P Chidambaram, Digvijay Singh and Sushil Kumar Shinde were the prominent secular leaders who were out to please their Pakistani masters.

Hindusthan Samachar / Manohar Yadavatti