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New Delhi:
Even as hundreds of suspected Sangh Parivar activists vandalised the
lobby of the TV Channel after it telecast a sting operation on an
alleged plot to assassinate Vice President Hamid Ansari, Congress
general secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday demanded from the Home Ministry to conduct an in-depth
investigation into the plot and register a case
against BJP leader B.L. Sharma.
“The assassination plot is extremely
serious and demands intervention at the highest level,” he said. The
TV expose revealed the “violent and anti-national character of Hindu
fundamentalists…. The BJP had been accusing the Congress of being
soft on terror. And now, the party itself stands charged with terror
activities.”
Earlier, Congress spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan said, “the
involvement of senior RSS leaders with terror groups and specific
acts of terrorism” needed to be investigated because “they have the
power through such acts to destabilise the entire society, the
Constitution and our political system.”
She recalled that it was the BJP which accused the “martyred Hemant
Karkare of being unpatriotic when he first started uncovering these
unholy links.”
'Plot to kill
V-P'
Headlines Today, on the basis of the
CBI INVESTIGATIONS have exposed that the Hindutva terror brigade was
contemplating an assassination bid on Vice- President Hamid Ansari
during the annual convocation of the Jamia Millia Islamia in October
2007.
The investigating agency stumbled upon
the extent to which the terror brigade was prepared to go while
analysing audio recordings recovered from the 2007 Malegaon blasts
accused, and self proclaimed Shankaracharya Dayanand Pandey’s
laptop.
Its suspicion is based on an exchange
between the ‘Shankaracharya’ and Dr R. P. Singh, an endocrinologist
practising at the Apollo Hospital in Delhi.
Information accessed by Headlines
Today from the investigators shows that Dr Singh was part of a
larger saffron terror ring operating in the country. But although
Pandey was arrested and booked on terror charges, Dr Singh is a free
man.
Sources in the Maharashtra ATS informed Headlines Today that they
didn’t arrest the doctor because there was no evidence to link him
with the Malegaon blasts. Singh, even after being let off, is under
the CBI scanner.
'TV Channel
Office vandalized'
Meanwhile, In a brazen attack on press
freedom, a large number of people owing allegiance to the sangh
parivar vandalised the office of the TV Today Network at Videocon
Towers at Jhandewalan here on Friday.
The attack came a day after the group's news channel, Headlines
Today, telecast tapes of secret meetings attended by some Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders and where discussions were allegedly
held on carrying out “terrorist attacks against meetings of
Muslims.''
Protesting against the telecast of the tapes, an over 2000-strong
mob, which included several women, barged into the lobby of Videocon
Towers around 5 p.m. and resorted to vandalism.
Carrying placards — which read “RSS/Sangh ka apmaan nahi sahega
Hindustan” (India will not tolerate insult to RSS and Sangh) — and
armed with sticks, the protesters hurled flower plots, stones and
bricks at the entrance gate of the lobby. They smashed glass doors
and windows and damaged furniture.
Delhi police personnel and security guards were punched and pushed
around.
The high-voltage drama continued for over 15 minutes before police
reinforcements reached the spot and brought the situation under
control.
'Attack on
press condemned'
The attack on the TV Channel office
has been receiving widespread condemnation. While the Editor of the
Headlkine Today himself criticized the attack, Editors' Guild of
India has also come strongly in support of the channel.
“I have no problem to a protest but what they have done is grossly
incorrect. They have not acted in a fair manner. If they had a
problem with the contents of the story, they could have protested
through democratic means. They could have approached the Editors'
Guild, the channel editor or held a press conference. Barging into
the office of a channel and indulging in hooliganism cannot be
defended", said Rahul Kanwal, Editor of Headlines Today.
The Editors Guild of India has also
condemned the attack by a mob on the TV Today network office in
Delhi, following a sting operation by the channel on a Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader.
"Some members of the crowd forcibly entered the building and even
vandalised the Headlines Today office. Such fascist methods to try
and silence the media will only backfire," a statement by the
guild's president Rajdeep Sardesai and secretary general Coomi
Kapoor said.
"All organisations who believe in freedom of the media must protest
against such intimidatory and uncivilised behaviour. It is
particularly deplorable that there has been an attempt in some
quarters to condone such hooliganism," it added.
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