As if he wasn’t popular enough, home minister Palaniappan Chidambaram—the darling of the Hindutva crowd for his seemingly tough, no-nonsense, hands-on approach to Islamist and Maoist terror—has bitten the hand the claps by alerting the nation to the “new phenomenon of saffron terrorism“.
“There is no let-up in the attempts to radicalise young men and women in India. Besides, there is the recently uncovered phenomenon of saffron terrorism that has been implicated in many bomb blasts of the past. My advice to you is that we must remain ever vigilant and continue to build, at the Central and State levels, our capacity in counter-terrorism,” he told top police and security officers.
Chidambaram’s comment comes in the wake of the discovery of a common footprint behind recent bomb blasts—from the Mecca masjid in Hyderabad to the Ajmer dargah in Rajasthan, and a bunch of incidents in Malegaon, Goa, Thane, Nanded, and Kanpur.
The overall toll isn’t high, but the intent, to create disharmony and mutual distrust, is.
The involvement of high functionaries of the saffron brotherhood, past and present, has sent quivers through the RSS and its political face, the BJP. But, above all, the revelation that the Hindu lunatic fringe can do what they accuse the Islamic lunatic fringe of doing has been a bit of a shocker.
Questions: Is Chidambaram barking up the wrong tree by sounding an alarm on “saffron terrorism” (which is gramatically a step-up from George W. Bush‘s “war on terror”) ? And will his seemingly tough, no-nonsense, hands-on approach continue to attract the BJP’s encomiums?
Or is smart Mr Chidambaram just doing a bit of course-correction following the increasing criticism of his abrasive approach from his own cabinet and party colleagues?
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Tags: Abhinav Bharat, Ajmer Dargah, Bajrang Dal, BJP, Churumuri, George W. Bush, Hindu Terror, Hindutva Terror, Mecca Masjid, P. Chidambaram, RSS, Saffron Terrorism, Sanatana Sanstha, sangh parivar, Sans Serif, Sri Rama Sena
26 August 2010 at 6:48 am
It should have been Congress sponsored Muslim terror real! They have done this and India is suffering now.
26 August 2010 at 8:29 am
These congress men don’t have any job.
Mr. HM , when you’ll punish Kasab and co?
Congress ruined India from 1947..and it continues forever…
26 August 2010 at 9:43 am
This was bound to happen. You can’t expect any community to be silent for any length of time.
Even during the Gujarat riots, there were around 300+ hindus killed (a fact always hidden by the “secularists”) which means Muslims did fight back.
The so-called “saffron-terrorism” will die out. The fact is Hindus as much more progressive-thinking and also economically much forward to lose their gains in petty tit-for-tat terror games. And they don’t have the Pakis or Saudis to support them.
26 August 2010 at 10:55 am
Saffron is mostly produced in Kashmir isn’t it ? ;)
26 August 2010 at 2:20 pm
What are the other colours?
27 August 2010 at 2:50 am
Expect all cheddis to brush chindu as typical congie, when till yesterday they were praising him to be the “BEST” home minister and their own trojan. Not that he is not, but he maybe just dropped this in light of intelligence of another mecca masjid, ajmir dragah, malegaon mosque bombing etc…
Hope the cheddis refrain from further terrorism, now that chindu has forewarned them.
27 August 2010 at 3:08 am
maybe…. we need to mix colors :)
canvas is large enough to paint with every color. Can you go beyond RGB……
hehe Gujarat riots and aftermath …. this is going to haunt us forever.
“saffron-terrorism” will die out. of course, with inevitable differences from within the Hindu community. Someone said malaria is a product of hindu unhygienic ritual practices. time to walk a different lane….. singaporiyat with the touch of T.classicalism. :)
No solution for secularism…. hehehe lets bring back Teresa then provide her funds ……. helping convert hindooos (the barbarians) to Christians(angles).
Money eater Congress has ruined India…… and of course it will continue to do so. Why terrorists of other colors can’t kidnap these congress man for money… they will get an easy share of the loot …… plz do it on congress men ASAP.
Chidambaram is right… but it is largely in response to several attacks from the other color. Other color has a philosophy of destroying indifferent religions.
Saffron color has a philosophy of living happily with other colors. but if you kick Saffron color then Saffron color will kick you back 10 times harder.
@Somebody
hey we are very lucky to have few more colors and they too are beautiful. the problem come when color tends to push itself towards 0 0 0.
27 August 2010 at 9:35 am
How abt Red Terrorism Mr.PC?
27 August 2010 at 9:49 am
Typical waffling by HM Konga! When the real terrorists are roaming free and while he comes under fire for his way of dealing with the Maoists he has gone back to Sonia appeasing by targeting the so called Safron terror!
27 August 2010 at 10:23 am
oh yeah, RSS folks are terrorists. PDF, SIMI, KDF etc etc are patriotic organizations.. kasab, afzal, madani etc are our national idols..
27 August 2010 at 11:43 am
[...] Or perhaps, a poll? [...]
27 August 2010 at 12:00 pm
Pseudo Secularists again hiding facts, Hindus are almost totally eliminated from Kashmir, Now with the help of congress i am sure in some years to come Hindus will be the minority in INDIA.
27 August 2010 at 4:10 pm
It’s one more tactics of HM and the governemnt to deviate from real existing issues.
27 August 2010 at 4:19 pm
@Khan:
Let me remind you Newtons third law.
27 August 2010 at 7:03 pm
we need to have another option – “I Wish”
29 August 2010 at 9:49 pm
Why not? Life goes a full cirle..
• Advani went to pakistan and Praised Jinnah
• Advani released maulana Masood azhar to Pakistan and many thousands died of terrorism
• Modi’s terrorism in Gujurath
• Sadhvi Pragya’s arrest
…. perhaps many more to come.
Brand all Hindus like us is not fair, but there is something cooking for sure.