NEW DELHI: The controversial Samjhauta Express blast and the issue of ‘saffron terror’ figured prominently in the Lok Sabha today with two BJP Members demanding a thorough probe into it and made a veiled attack on UPA regime for misusing the government agencies and machineries under the Home Ministry.
The Amreli MP from Gujarat Naranbhai Bhikhabhai Kachhadiya and Rajendra Agrawal from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh raised the issue during Zero Hour and alleged that the official agencies were abused during the Congress-led UPA regime.
Mr Agrawal said, “…..it is a matter of concern that even official agencies were abused and people in power stood with the anti-national elements to draw political mileage”.
Referring to media reports wherein narco-analysis interrogation of Safdar Nagori shows the former SIMI chief admitting on tape that the Samjhauta Express blasts were carried out by those trained in Pakistan, he said an Indian army official Lt Colonel Shrikant Purohit has been “falsely implicated” in the case.
He told Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, who was on the Chair, that she would not be happy to note that a SIMI operative Adbul Razzak, who is said to have been involved in the crime, hails from Indore – the Parliamentary constituency of Ms Mahajan.
“I am aware of this,” the Speaker said at one point of time.
The lawmaker from Amreli Naranbhai Bhikhabhai Kachhadiya said it is unfortunate that the phrase ‘saffron terror’ was deliberately brought in and even Swami Aseemanand, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist also falsely implicated.
Both the Members demanded that there was a need to take a fresh look at the case.
Congress Member Rajeev Satav strongly objected to certain observations from the BJP Members.
In the din, another BJP Member Ganesh Singh demanded that the Government should make a statement on this while CPI-M Member M B Rajesh also said the Home Minister should present government’s views on the matter.
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