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maintained that a fundamental difference between UPA-1, an effort was made to invent ‘Hindu terror’. In
truth and falsehood is that truth holds together and one case, the actual terrorists were arrested. Upon
falsehood falls apart”. To each fake campaign of the rethinking by the Government, a charge-sheet was
‘Compulsive Contrarians’ over a period of time, ulti- filed against a set of individuals belonging to the
mately the truth has prevailed. Either it is the electoral Hindu community and completely contradicting the
mandate or the judicial process which gives the final earlier investigation. In the Samjhauta Express blast,
verdict. the US State Department and the United Nations
Important UPA Ministers and leaders coined the kept indicating a certain Jehadi organisation and in-
vicious theory of ‘Hindu terror’ during the UPA Gov- dividuals responsible for the 2007 blasts at Panipat.
ernment. The ‘Compulsive Contrarians’ adopted it. It However, it was considered by the then Government
was an effort to distract attention from Jehadi terror. It as a ‘Hindu conspiracy’. Yesterday’s verdict by the
was a conspiracy to give a bad name to the otherwise Court has judicially put the last nail in the coffin of the
liberal majority community in India. On terrorism, so-called ‘Hindu terror theory’.
Hindus were drawn into equivalence. Terror is alien
to the Hindu culture. In fact, it’s alien to India’s legacy. Godhra train fire
We are amongst the few successful nations in the The burning of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra in
world which have managed to overcome terror and 2002 was an attempt to instigate social and commu-
insurgency in several parts of the country. Not a single nal tension in the State. The accused in the case were
Indian has ever been arrested or killed in attempting a identified. There was voluminous evidence available.
blast or terrorist violence across the border. The accused were arrested at different points of time,
In a series of incidents across the country during charge sheeted, their bail applications were rejected

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