The death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri remains a mystery. Another former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated despite intelligence inputs about attempts on his life. Obviously these warnings were overlooked. Given this history, it is not surprising that some powerful sections within the country are ridiculing reports about the threat to the life of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, argues.
The Vice-Chairman of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money appointed by the Supreme Court, Justice (Retd) Arijit Pasayat has exposed various facets of Maoist extortion and the narcotics industry. He has said that the Maoists generate huge amount of black money and their leaders have purchased illegal properties with that. It needs no explaining that without terror there can be no extortion and there can be no narcotics trade without destruction of society.
The black money that the SIT is talking about is the same extortion money which Delhi University teacher G N Sai Baba collected from Gadchiroli in Maharashtra through his Maoist disciples. It is the same Gadchiroli where, under the previous political dispensation, Maharashtra policemen deliberately allowed their weapons to be snatched by Maoists so that the Maoists in Chhattisgarh could be armed for terror activities in the State governed by an opposition party.
When, Binayak Sen, allegedly the urban conduit and benefactor, as well as the link between the Church and the Maoists, was tried in the court, European Commission members swooped in on the Indian court to watch his trial. Officials dealing with intelligence gathering point out that it was the period when the then UPA government had facilitated the visit of the European Commission under the “instruction” of the then prevailing National Advisory Council (NAC), “packed with Maoist sympathisers”. It was during this period that in Chhattisgarh two formidable political personalities, V C Shukla and Mahendra Karma, were killed in the most gruesome manner by the Maoists. These were political killings, indeed.
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