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| Follow Indira Gandhi way: RSS advises Congress | | ****Afzal's case**** | |
New Delhi, Oct 10 Stating that India does not have a precedence
of forgiving 'crime against nation', the RSS has asked Congress to
follow former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who went ahead with the
hanging of Mohammad Maqbool Butt and adopt the same principle in the
case of Mohammad Afzal, convicted by the Supreme Court for waging a
war against the state.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh mouthpiece 'Organiser', which ran a
front page storyheadlined ''Ban on RSS, Balm for Afzal'', in its
editorial stated how Ms Indira Gandhi hanged Maqbool Butt even at
the cost of losing one of the country's finest diplomats,
Ravindra Mhatre.
Mhatre was kidnapped in London and the kidnappers demanded the
release of Maqbool Butt, who was in jail but the then government
refused and the diplomat was killed by suspected JKLF militants.
Butt was later hanged in 1984.
Afzal has been sentenced to death by hanging on October 20 for
masterminding the December 2001 attack on Parliament, but there were
reports that his hanging may be put on hold.
Several Punjab terrorists like Harjinder Singh Jinda and Sukhdev
Singh Sukha were sent to gallows, the paper said adding the human
rights 'perverts' even at that time had argued that it would trigger
off more killings.
The RSS weekly said crime against the state deserves maximum
punishment. Anything less would send a wrong signal not just to the
terrorists but to the uniformed men fighting for the country.
Stating that death by hanging is a 'deterrent punishment', the
Organiser said several western countries were reintroducing this
method in their statute books because they had discovered that by
removing the fear of losing one's life, the justice delivery system
had considerably weakened.
The US, the shrill campaigner of human rights, had hanged a
Pakistani Mir Ajmal Kansi recently for killing two CIA personnel
outside their office.
Hanging Afzal is not a message to terrorists but it is only
carrying justice to its logical conclusion. The arguments that his
accomplices were let off the hook for 'lack of evidence' will not
diminish his crime, the paper argued. The argument of 'fair trial'
by Afzal's family was only a strategy to confuse India's fight
against treason and terror.
Attacking the parties seeking pardon for Afzal, the RSS weekly
said these people were turning their back on the sacrifice of the
people who had lost their lives in defence of their motherland, in
Parliament, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and North-East.
The Congress and Communists were falling to a new low in their
attempt to please and placate fanatic section of the minority
community. While Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad
was seeking pardon for Afzal, Congress leaders Mangat Ram Sharma and
Digvijay Singh were quick to distance themselves from such
absurdities.
Those who are seeking the pardon are not saying that he did not
commit the crime nor does he seem to regret it, the paper observed.
The paper also showered praise on relentless campaign of Congress
leader Maninder Singh Bitta for taking a delegation of family
members of the victims of Parliament attack to President A P J Abdul
Kalam.
Some sections of the media were attempting to whip up a frenzy in
the hope of saving Afzal when an overwhelming number of people voted
for capital punishment in the opinion polls.
''It is the will of the nation that has to express itself and
prevail,'' the RSS added. |
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