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Hemant Karkare Does Not Need a Certificate from Sadhvi Established 1946 1 Pages 20 Price : Rupees Five Vol. 74 No. 16 Hemant Karkare Does Not Need May 12, 2019 a Certificate From Sadhvi Why Janata Party Parted with S. S. Virk Jan Sangh over RSS Madhu Limaye Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, the Sadan in New Delhi. I asked him The Billionaire Beneficiaries of BJP’s candidate from the Bhopal about this new form of terrorism. BJP’s Schemes parliamentary seat, made an Was it real? If so, how serious was Bodapati Srujana irresponsible and controversial the matter, what were its parameters statement on April 18. While and what was its potential? We sat ILO Criticises Venezuela for addressing a meeting of party for about two hours in my room Raising Minimum Wage workers, she targeted the late Hemant where Karkare enlightened me about Nino Pagliccia Karkare, who had arrested her for the acts of violence undertaken by The King Who Loved Himself her alleged role in the Malegaon groups consisting of radical Hindu Chitra Padmanabhan blast case in 2008. She claimed youths, which were for quite some that it was her curse (“tera sarvnash time attributed to Muslim militant Modinomics = Corporatonomics hoga”), which ended Karkare’s groups. Part V: Other Social Sectors: life soon afterwards. The resultant He told me that some blasts took Lies, Deceit, Budget Cuts controversy and its fallout in the place accidentally in some parts of Neeraj Jain press, including the withdrawal Maharashtra without any reason, of her statement, took me back in which set him thinking. Some of time by nearly 11 years. About a the blasts were in the rural areas of Editor : G. G. Parikh month before his death, I discussed Marathwada in Hingoli and Nanded Associate Editor : Neeraj Jain the issue of violence by Hindu districts. These cases of accidental reactionary groups or the so-called blasts had resulted in injuries to Managing Editor : Guddi “saffron terror” with Hemant. I had some persons but no satisfactory Editorial Board : known Hemant as my cadre-mate explanation for the blasts was B. Vivekanandan, Qurban Ali and he was posted to New Delhi on forthcoming. So Karkare, as chief Anil Nauriya, Sonal Shah deputation. A fine officer, he had the of the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the reputation of being an outstanding Maharashtra Police, visited some Amarendra Dhaneshwar, and professional cop. of the blast sites and also probed Sandeep Pandey Having worked in Punjab and into the backgrounds of the persons D-15, Ganesh Prasad, fought militancy/terrorism there for who were injured. Interestingly, his Naushir Bharucha Marg, more than a decade, terrorism was enquiries revealed that the injured Mumbai - 400 007. surely a subject that interested me, persons were close to some ultra Email : [email protected] irrespective of its hues. One day, in Hindu groups closely associated with Website:www.janataweekly.org October 2008, I bumped into Hemant the RSS. Probing deeper, Karkare at the reception of Maharashtra widened the scope of his enquiries 2 JANATA, May 12 2019 and started verifying similar cases on him not to implicate these and dozens of innocent citizens in other parts of Maharashtra. These groups as these were the “forces of were also killed on 26/11. Is it not enquiries confirmed his earlier nationalism”. But Karkare did not strange that the fulfilment of her impression and deeper probes relent. Later, those who put pressure curse came through the bullets fired established the emergence and also tried to accuse him of being by emissaries of Masood Azhar? existence of radical Hindu groups pro-Muslim or anti-Hindu, a charge Truth is that Sadhvi and Masood forming terror modules to meet the that he vociferously countered, “Sir, Azhar both wanted to kill Karkare; challenges posed by pro-Islamic I am a Maharashtrian Brahmin and a both celebrated his death, though for terror groups. high-caste Hindu. But does it mean different reasons. These groups had formed that only Muslims and Sikhs are In democracies, many wrong Abhinav Bharat, which began as terrorists and violent acts of Hindu things do happen. But this is too a social organisation that engaged groups needed to be condoned?” blatant. An accused facing trial is young Hindu boys, radicalised He took strong objection to such presented as a party candidate and a them and made them aware of bulldozing for religious reasons. He national hero who sacrificed his life threats posed by Islamic forces and stood his ground. is denigrated. Will such irresponsible the need to forge a hardened group Unfortunately, Karkare was behaviour on the part of rulers not from within the Hindu population killed on the night of 26/11/2008 harm society or its secular fabric? which would pose a challenge during the terrorist attack in How insensitive and apoplectic do to the hitherto dominant Islamic Mumbai. Due to his sudden death, we want to make our society? groups. It also created groups who the dedication and commitment that Rest in peace, Hemant. You indulged in blasts in Muslim areas he had put into the case slackened to surely do not need a certificate and operated in such a manner that some extent. Similarly, the changed either from Sadhvi who cursed you the needle of suspicion would point political equations played their role or from the emissaries of Masood towards the Muslim groups. In fact, and the investigation of the case Azhar, whose bullet claimed your the police were already looking for was transferred to the NIA. Later, life. You gave the ultimate sacrifice. the culprits among Muslims. But similar political changes took place I am sure that coming generations this revelation completely changed in Maharashtra too and the grip on of cops will always look to you to the direction of the investigation. the case became loose. determine their direction and goals. In several cases, the complicity and Another development is that My salute to you. participation of Hindu groups was the main accused, Pragya Thakur, clearly established soon. is out on bail. Not only that, the (The writer is former DGP of Karkare successfully hidden forces which tried to pressure Punjab and Maharashtra.) investigated the Malegaon blast Karkare then have become more case, in which the Hindu group was assertive now. They have not only Janata Subscription involved. It was established that the accepted Thakur but have even motorcycle used in the blast was adopted her as the candidate of Annual Rs. : 260/- registered in the name of Sadhvi the ruling party from Bhopal. The Three Years : 750/- Pragya, who was arrested. The hidden hand is no longer hidden. I Demand Draft / investigation also established the feel that blaming Hemant Karkare Cheque on active role of several other persons, has just begun, it will pick up. Mumbai Bank including a serving officer of the Thakur said that it was her curse that Indian Army, holding the rank of killed Karkare. Condoning her own in favour of lieutenant colonel. Karkare and his role, she tried to put the entire blame team collected evidence and arrested on a professional and duty-conscious JanaTa TRuST many of them, including Lt Colonel officer who had sacrificed his life in D-15, Ganesh Prasad, Purohit. the line of duty. Karkare also told me that several Thakur perhaps forgot that Naushir Bharucha Marg, groups from political as well as besides Karkare, 15 other officers Grant Road (W), administrative circles put pressure and men of the Bombay police Mumbai 400 007. JANATA, May 12, 2019 3 Why Janata Party Parted with Jan Sangh over RSS Madhu Limaye I entered political life in 1937. Defined, that ran into several But what does Guruji have to say Quite active in Pune in those days editions, Guruji explicitly says on this? Guruji says that for now were the RSS and the Savarkarites that all non-Hindus must be treated Hindi should be made the common (followers of Vinayak Damodar as non-citizens. He wanted all language for all while the ultimate Savarkar) on the one hand and their citizenship rights taken away. objective should be to make Sanskrit nationalist, socialist and leftist Incidentally, these ideas of his were the national language. political organisations on the other. not newly formulated. From the Fifth, the national movement On May 1, 1938, we took out a time we were in college (in the mid- for independence had accepted march to observe May Day. The 1930s), members of the RSS were the idea of a federal state. In a marchers were attacked by the RSS inclined to follow Hitlerian ideals. In confederation, the centre would and Savarkarites when, among their view, Muslims and Christians definitely have certain powers others, the well-known revolutionary in India deserved to be treated the on specific matters but all others Senapati Bapat and our socialist same way that Hitler treated Jews would be a subject matter for the leader, S.M. Joshi, were injured. in Germany. states. But following partition, in We have had serious differences The extent of Guruji’s a bid to strengthen the centre, the with these Hindutva organisations sympathies for the views of the Constitution stipulated a concurrent ever since. Nazi Party is evident from the list. As per this list, several subjects Our first difference with the RSS following passage from We or Our were made concurrent, subjects over was over the issue of nationalism. Nationhood Defined: “To keep up which both the centre and the states We believed that every citizen had the purity of the race and its culture, have equal jurisdiction. Thus the equal rights in the Indian nation. Germany shocked the world by her federal state came into existence.
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