Slamming reports that a right-wing group might have been involved in the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast, senior Haryana Minister Anil Vij on Wednesday claimed that a Hindu can never be a terrorist. Vij claimed that it was the handiwork of the former Congress-led central government to build a “political plot” in the Samjhauta blast case in order to portray that to “Hindu terror exists”. “A Hindu cannot be a terrorist… A Hindu can never be a terrorist and there cannot be any term like Hindu terrorism,” he said.
He also added that “If a Hindu were to be a terrorist, then terrorism would not have been in the entire world. This menace would have been wiped out.”
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What followed Vij’s comment was a backlash from senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh who hit back saying “Hindu can’t be a terrorist, only a Sanghi can be one (Unhone sahi farmaaya hai, Sanghi aatankwaad hota hai…Hindu aatankwaad kabhi nahin hota).” He also tweeted: “I am a devout practising Hindu but totally opposed to Hindutatva which has no relation with Hindu religion and in fact Anti Hindu.”
I am a devout practising Hindu but totally opposed to Hindutatva which has no relation with Hindu religion and in fact Anti Hindu.
— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) June 22, 2017
Recent reports hinted that the main suspects in the case were Pakistanis who were allowed to leave the country during the UPA government. “It is a very serious matter that Pakistanis who were caught were let off. And people of this country were arrested and branded as Hindu terrorists. This was the previous Congress-led UPA government’s game. Those Pakistanis must have been freed at the behest of the then government,” Vij said.
On February 18, 2007, 68 people were killed after a blast in 2 coaches of cross-border Indo-Pak Samjhauta Express in Panipat in Haryana. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had filed a charge sheet before the special court in 2011 under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against 5 persons — Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Swami Aseemanand, Sunil Joshi (now dead), Lokesh Sharma, Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalasangra alias Ramji.
Recently in March, a special NIA court issued summons to 13 Pakistani witnesses for deposing before it in connection with the case.
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