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Rajiv Gandhi-Narendra Modi Rajiv Gandhi. It was only after his assas- nation plot of current Prime Minister have seen letters written by Maoists in

sination, a Special Investigation Team
my career but for the first time, I am
Narendra Modi on the lines similar to
seeing such kind of letter.” A source in
the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and
of CBI, after months of investigation,
assassination plots: How were able to decode the messages and arrested the accused persons of the the forensic department said, “We have
not done any analysis of the letters, we
found the involvement of LTTE in the
assassination plot.
just did the cloning of the hard disc and
assassination.
similar, how different? Modi assassination plot How different? other devices. We don’t know whether
Though the plot of Rajiv Gandhi’s
the letters were there inside the hard
Now, after 27 years, the assassination
assassination had a highly coded nature disc or not.”
M V Krishna Rao, Former Director
of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
has again been in the limelight after of communication, the assassination General of (Sahastra Seema Bal) and
plot of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
While the Union Home Minister. Rajnath Singh has reviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s it was mentioned in a letter, which had no secrecy to it. The Maoist letters Former ADG of CRPF, was quoted as
was recovered by Pune police alleg-
allegedly recovered from Wilson’s
saying, “First of all CPI (Maoists) will not
security in the backdrop of Maoist threat of targeting PM with “another Rajiv Gandhi type edly from the computer of Delhi- computer have a clear mention of the recruit people who are known in pub-
incident”, the question arises how similar and how different the assassination plots are? based activist Rona Wilson. Wilson assassination plot and even has the lic domain. These five people, Prakash
Ambedkar or others who are men -
along with anti-displacement activist
names of political leaders and social
tehelka bureau gathers threads Mahesh Raut, Nagpur University pro- activists. Maharashtra Director General tioned in the letters are renowned in
fessor Shoma Sen, Nagpur-based Law- of Police Satish Mathur claimed that the public domain and Maoists will never
yer Surendra Gadling and Mumbai- letters are credible. recruit such people who are famous.
he government has taken mandalai addipodalam. Dump pan- gence wing of Indian Peace Keeping based activist Sudhir Dhawle have been A high ranking IPS officer from To be a member of the party or cen -
input from Maharashtra nidungo. Maranai vechidungo” (Blow Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka after which in- arrested from Delhi, Nagpur and Mum- Intelligence department of Andhra
Police “very seriously” to the head of Rajiv Gandhi, eradicate him, telligence agencies started monitoring bai. The whole case took a new angle Pradesh with an expertise on Maoism
effectively neutralise all Kill him) was heard by the People’s Lib- wireless communication. Though they when a section of media went frenzied (on the condition of anonymity) has The Maoist
T possible threats. The Home eration Organization of Tamil Ealam, a were able to trace a message between by the mention of the alleged assassi- reportedly said, “Maoist do write let-
Ministry has already received a report pro-government paramilitary, which two unauthorized stations in Chennai ters but they don’t write in such a long letters allegedly
from the Maharashtra police regard- was with logger heads with LTTE (Lib- and Jaffna in January 1991, but couldn’t • Memory lane: Modi assassination plot form. Mention of buying M-4 guns with recovered from
ing the communication found from eration Tigers of Tamil Ealam). The in- break it as it was highly coded and had reminds of tidings before Rajiv Gandhi’s as- 4,00,000 lakhs rounds of bullets, strat-
the Delhi residence of activist Rona tercept, which was heard in April 1990, alphanumeric codes. No wireless mes- sassination which were perhaps not taken egy to mobilise people and discussing Wilson’s computer
Wilson, one of the five arrested days was immediately reported to the intelli- sages were untangled till the death of seriously the assassination of PM is weird. I do have a clear
ago for alleged Maoist links and their
role in the Bhima-Koregaon violence. mention of the
While the Congress has demanded a
probe into the alleged assassination assassination plot
plot against PM Modi and asked the
issue not to be politicised, NCP boss
Sharad Pawar has dismissed the threat tral committee nobody should be able
letter as an attempt to garner sympa- to recognise you if you stand next to
thy. Speaking at a rally, Pawar said, “The someone. As far as I know, members of
BJP has realised that they are losing the central committee were not using
popular support. In order to gain sym- computers 6-7 years back. I don’t know
pathy, the BJP is now playing the threat whether they have started using them
letter card.” now. The central committee members
Shiv Sena has scoffed at the alleged generally don’t use the methodol -
Maoist letter suggesting a plot to tar- ogy of sending letters through emails,
get Prime Minister Narendra Modi in they used the methodology of couriers
a Rajiv Gandhi-type incident by say- (couriers are 2 or 3 trusted people of
ing the conspiracy appears like the CC members who are employed with
story of a horror film and is “laughable”. the job to deliver their messages) and
An editorial in Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece the letters are very short with not more
Saamana said that such information than one or two sentences. A normal
often does the rounds ahead of person will not be able to understand
elections. them as they have hidden meaning
Rajiv’s first wireless intercept The to it,” added Rao.
first wireless intercept about Rajiv
Gandhi read “Rajiv Gandhi avarunde letters@tehelka.com

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