By way of PTI
GUWAHATI: Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan on Saturday accused the ruling BJP of keeping up ‘shut hyperlinks’ with folks stuck in terror actions, together with in Assam.
She maintained that whilst the BJP loses no alternative to evangelise nationalism to Indians, the affiliation with such folks has led Congress to query the saffron celebration.
“The Congress does now not imagine in taking part in politics over severe nationwide problems like terrorism,” Ranjan mentioned, addressing a press convention right here.
“Alternatively a couple of revelations of shut hyperlinks between the BJP and folks stuck in terror actions power us to invite some instantly questions of a ruling celebration that loses no alternative to evangelise to Indians about nationalism,” the Rajya Sabha member added.
She pointed that militant-turned-politician Niranjan Hojai is these days a BJP chief within the state, even if he was once convicted via an NIA courtroom in 2017 in a case on the subject of diverting govt cash to fund terror actions.
Ranjan mentioned there have been a lot of such folks related with the saffron celebration, together with the most-recent example of a BJP employee Mohammad Riyaz Attari turning out to be probably the most accused within the Kanhaiya Lal homicide in Udaipur.
“He had joined the BJP within the presence of a senior native chief. Media studies state that Attari was once hired via the son-in-law of the BJP’s Chief of the Opposition within the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha, Gulab Chand Kataria,” she claimed.
A Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Talib Hussain Shah, who were captured via locals, was once published to be a BJP office-bearer in Jammu and Kashmir, she identified.
When arrested, he were making plans assaults at the Amarnath Yatra, the Congress chief claimed.
“In 2017, the Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested the BJP IT Mobile member Dhruv Saxena in conjunction with 10 accomplices for spying for the Inter Products and services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate. The secret agent ring had arrange an unlawful phone alternate to facilitate espionage,” Ranjan mentioned.
Two years later Balram Singh, a Bajrang Dal chief from Madhya Pradesh, was once arrested in a fear investment case, she added.
The Congress chief additionally accused the BJP of knowingly giving a price ticket to Masood Azhar’s acolyte Mohammad Farooq Khan to contest the Srinagar municipal election.
She additionally identified that dreaded terrorist Masood Azhar who was once launched via the BJP-led govt in 1999 all through the Kandahar hijacking.
Azhar went on to search out the Jaish-e-Muhammad terror staff that was once accountable for the 2001 Parliament assault and the 2008 Mumbai assaults.
“The Jaish additionally masterminded for the 2019 Pulwama assault through which 44 CRPF group of workers died after 200 kg of prime explosive together with RDX by hook or by crook made its well past a couple of safety checkpoints. Why an inquiry into Pulwama has now not been held stays a thriller,” the Congress chief querried.
