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Shinde's 'Hindu Terror' comments based on facts: Khurshid
Tuesday January 22, 2013 07:00:58 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: External
Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Tuesday backed Home Minister
Sushilkumar Shinde's "Hindu terror" comments, saying what he had
said was "based on facts" as revealed by investigative agencies.
"Our stated position is based entirely on facts as the
investigative agencies have made available to the government...
Attempts to divert attention and to push it in a particular and
premeditated direction by some people is repudiated by the
information that is available," Khurshid told reporters.
"We have categorically said many times that any form of violence
that is propagated by extremists of any kind, irrespective of
religion, is what is dangerous for the country, terror does not
have a religion," he added.
He also said that "religion should not be associated with terror,
it is terror that we are fighting and those are the facts
available... We should not be distracted by a phrase, the
determination is what that matters".
Shinde had referred to "Hindu terrorism" and "saffron terrorism"
during the Congress conclave in Jaipur Sunday.
"After investigations, we have seen that be it the BJP or the RSS
(Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), their training camps are promoting
Hindu terrorism. This is a matter of concern. We are keeping a
strict eye on it," Shinde had said in his speech.
The minister later clarified that he had only stated what has been
appearing in the media and his reference was to "saffron
terrorism".
The BJP has reacted very strongly to Shinde's statement and
demanded he be sacked and an apology from Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
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