Garhwal Post Bureau
Dehradun, 31 Jul: The BJP has hailed the court’s decision in the Malegaon blast case as a “slap on the face” of those who created the false theory of ‘saffron terrorism’. Uttarakhand BJP has welcomed today’s NIA court verdict in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, terming it a resounding rebuke to those who had propagated the narrative of so-called ‘saffron terrorism’.
BJP State President and Rajya Sabha MP Mahendra Bhatt described all the acquitted individuals as patriots, asserting that their exoneration is a living testament to the maxim Satyamev Jayate, that the truth alone triumphs. He demanded that the Congress publicly apologise for what he termed a grave injustice committed against Sanatan Dharma.
In a statement issued to the media today after the verdict, Bhatt expressed deep satisfaction with the verdict, which follows a protracted legal battle spanning seventeen years. He said the judgment has once again made it evident that the concept of ‘saffron terrorism’ is not only baseless but also an affront to the civilisational ethos of Hinduism. Emphasising that no devout Hindu could ever be a terrorist, he asserted that the verdict has fully exposed the alleged conspiracy to defame Sanatan Dharma in the aftermath of the Malegaon incident. He termed the ruling a judicial endorsement of the unshakable faith of crores of followers of Sanatan Dharma, which has withstood the test of time over millennia.
Training his guns on the Congress, Bhatt said that the verdict restores the dignity and honour of sages, patriots, and devout Sanatanis whose reputations were deliberately sullied by the propagation of what he called a concocted theory. He accused the Congress of conspiring to malign the Hindu community and said this was yet another example of its anti-India, anti-justice, and anti-Sanatan stance.
Bhatt also asserted that the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra, during the tenure of the UPA regime, had orchestrated a calculated ploy in the name of the Malegaon blast, with the intention of influencing the 2009 Lok Sabha elections by polarising public sentiment against Hindus.
He alleged that the then government deliberately refrained from pursuing the real culprits and instead falsely implicated innocent individuals belonging to the Hindu community. He further claimed that these individuals were subjected to fabricated charges and were pressurised to confess to crimes they never committed, all with the singular objective of besmirching the age-old spiritual and cultural heritage of Sanatan Dharma.
Bhatt demanded that the Congress should come forward, accept its moral responsibility for this “unpardonable offence”, and offer an unconditional public apology to the nation.
