I had
earlier warned that ‘hunting season’ had begun. Seems the first target of the
hunt was N. Srinivasan. Now that N. Srinivasan has failed to oblige our media
hopefully sanity will return to people like Arnab Goswami and Rajdeep
Sardesai. They can lick their wounds in peace and think of getting back to
hunting Narendra Modi or some other politician from the BJP. Some of them may
already have had a sneak preview of the Food Security ad under Bharat Nirman
and will be hoping FSB passes in
parliament so that a fresh dose of BN ads can continue. So what was this first
round of hunting covering up? You guessed right; it was the Chattisgarh Maoists
attack on a Congress convoy on May 25. Post the disaster TimesNow, CNN-IBN,
NDTV, HeadlinesToday all rushed to Chattisgarh but none reported the story from
people on the ground. None held any serious
debates on the killings.
It’s now 10
days since the attack and there is no sign these cowardly channels are going to
seriously discuss the Maoists issue. But there is another serious issue that
concerns the Congress party. It’s about fools rushing in where angels fear to
tread. In an attack like the one on the Congress convoy any mature politician
would have held his horses and waited for some detailed information before
mindless outrage. Not Rahul Gandhi! He rushed to Chattisgarh along with mummy
and at a meeting kept asking the Chief Secretary “Who is responsible?” for the carnage, which was also an indirect
question to the CM Raman Singh. It’s also important to understand that this man
had no business to be in that meeting at all. But you’re a Gandhi, so
everything passes. And that is not all. The Amul baby even made grandiose
statements like this is an “attack on democracy, an attack on the idea of India”. My guess is he has learned to
parrot these lines from TV morons.
News was
already trickling in that the Maoist attack was a conspiracy by certain
Congress members and there were a lot of rumours floating in the territory. So
let’s help the “power is poison” fellow with some more news. This is all from Dainik Bhaskar and I just quote:
National
Investigation Agency (NIA) officials on Sunday told Dainik Bhaskar that four
party leaders were in 'constant touch' with Naxalites on the fateful day.
While two of the leaders are confirmed to have
been were present in the convoy itself,
other two at the venue of departure reportedly gave ‘running commentary’
as soon as the convoy left for Keslur town from Darbha block.
“We are investigation the call records which
were made through the Jagdalpur cellphone tower. Four Congress have been
identified who we believe provided minute-by-minute information to the
Naxalites. Two of them were present in the convoy,” a NIA officer said.
“At present, we think that one of those in
the convoy was the mastermind who planned the strike,” he added.
The
suspicion over insiders being involved in the attack was first raised by
Mahendra Karma’s son Deepak, who claims that such a ‘precision strike couldn’t
have been possible without ‘insider inputs’… “They cannot carry out such a big
operation successfully without inputs on Congress leaders' movement. This
information was provided by someone who was privy to the movement plan,"
Deepak had alleged in a chat with Times of India. He had even asked as to who
had ‘forced’ his slain father to take the same route from which he went to
Darbha, revealing that Karma ‘did not use to take the same route twice’.
Our TV
channels had already screamed there was intelligence failure, lack of adequate
security blah, blah blah… All these normally result only in random, mindless
killings. The incident on May 25 doesn’t appear to be random killing by any
stretch of imagination. It seems a very well-planned attack with inside
information provided to the Maoists by members from the very party which wants to play victim. I wonder if Arnab Goswami and Rajdeep Sardesai will now go
after Rahul Gandhi as they did after N. Srinivasan. It will reveal a lot more
than the Chattisgarh attack. It will also reveal how the Congress has directly
or indirectly supported Maoist sympathisers and through that Maoist killers
themselves. The BJP has even directly accused Ajit Jogi of conspiracy,
something political parties normally don’t do.
They need to
ask the great white hope only one question: Who is responsible, Mr.RahulG?
