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Swami Aseemanand, the incarcerated ex RSS-man and the Hindu firebrand, accused of ploying a slew of terrorist attacks on civilian across the country between 2006 and 2008, has made a jaw-dropping revelation in his latest interview to The Caravan Magazine.
Swamiji, who is currently held a prisoner at the Ambala Central Jail for inciting terrorist attacks on Samjhauta Express (February 2007), Hyderabad Mecca Masjid (May 2007), Ajmer Dargah (October 2007) and two attacks in Malegaon (September 2006 and September 2008), which killed as many as 119 people, has accused the current Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) supremo Mohan Bhagwat of 'sanctioning' the attacks.
In the past two years, Swami Aseemanand has doled out four exclusive interviews to The Caravan journalist Leena Gita Reghunath. In his last two interviews, he revealed that all the terrorist acts were okayed by the highest levels of the RSS, including Mohan Bhagwat, the reining RSS chief, who was the organisation’s general secretary at the time.
During the interview, Aseemanand claimed that Mohan Bhagwat had clearly warned him that the blasts should be in no way linked to the Sangh. ‘It is very important that it be done. But you should not link it to the Sangh’,” he said in a press release issued by the magazine on Wednesday.
The RSS, however, has refuted all allegations and questioned the veracity of the interview. “It is a rubbish and concocted interview,” said the RSS’s all-India publicity chief Manmohan Vaidya.
Meanwhile, the magazine, which is running the story under the title “The Believer”, has made public the audio tapes and transcripts generated over four interactions and interviews on Wednesday.
“Aseemanand told me about a meeting that allegedly took place in July 2005. After an RSS conclave in Surat, senior Sangh leaders including Bhagwat and Indresh Kumar, who is now on the organisation’s powerful seven-member national executive council, traveled to a temple in the Dangs, Gujarat, where Aseemanand was living.In a tent pitched by a river several kilometres away from the temple, Bhagwat and Kumar met with Aseemanand and his accomplice Sunil Joshi (who was killed in December 2007). Joshi informed Bhagwat of a plan to bomb several Muslim targets around India,” the journalist wrote in her story.
The report quoted Aseemanand as saying, “Then they told me, ‘Swamiji, if you do this we will be at ease with it. Nothing wrong will happen then. Criminalisation nahin hoga (It will not be criminalised). If you do it, then people won’t say that we did a crime for the sake of committing a crime. It will be connected to the ideology. This is very important for Hindus. Please do this. You have our blessings’.”
Image Source : The Caravan
AW: Suchorita Choudhury
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