Among his many profound pieces of advice
that “Deep Throat” gave Bob
Woodward, one principle in the pursuit of crimes remains immortal: “Follow
the money”. It started as another scam or a Ponzi scheme but the pursuit of
the Saradha scam in Bengal has
opened up a much bigger threat to the country and one of its neighbours. The
web of deceit, financial crimes and the linkage to terrorism is shocking to say
the least. And all of this comes with involvement of the ruling party members in
the state. There is no escape for Mamata
Banerjee (MB) or her TMC from
this. She will indeed have to answer for a lot.
On the evening of October 6, Monday, the
man in the pic, Derek O’Brien (DOB)
was asked to respond to the incident of an accidental blast at the Burdwan
centre of TMC which killed two men who were assembling IEDs. Instead of
answering the questions DOB stated barking at the BJP and Social Media as
“hate-mongering” with their Hindu agenda against the TMC. This scumbag also
happens to be an MP from Bengal. We have to wonder what agenda the TMC really
has. In June-July there was a spate of attacks on Hindus and BJP leaders by TMC
goondas, some murders too. There were a few rapes earlier which MB described as
a “conspiracy” against her. 34 years
of CPM and now this absolute horror of a political party sinking Bengal has
still not seen an outrage in our media. Not surprising because they all belong
in the “Sickular” basket. Let’s summarise the story first.
On August 24 a story surfaced about the Saradha scam money fanning
terrorism in Bangladesh: “The CBI and ED learnt that
funds collected from the public through Saradha’s chit fund schemes were
centrally deposited at the group’s offices in Salt Lake. After being accounted
for, hundreds of crores were transported to various centres close to the
Indo-Bangladesh border. The cash was put in huge bags and taken by ambulances
belonging to the Saradha group. The Indian currency was then secretly converted
to Bangladeshi Taka and European currencies at a “Foreign Currency Convertor
Centre” belonging to a man from Kolkata. Armed couriers of radical Islamic
outfits would then smuggle the converted currency across the border under the
cover of darkness”. The report mentions the operations being managed by a
Rajya Sabha MP. He is TMC MP Ahmed Hassan Imran and his story is quite interesting:
“TMC links with
Bangladeshi radical groups The Anand Bazar Patrika report “Before 2011, the
Jamaat helped Trinamool with huge funds secretly transferred across the border.
Imran played a key role in it. “Later when the Jamaat faced government’s ire
during its opposition to war crimes trials, it received funds from Trinamool
which had come to power in 2011 and many of whose leaders were ministers in the
Manmohan Singh government,” the Ananda Bazar Patrika report said, quoting
extensively from a detailed report it claims was given to India by Bangladesh
intelligence. Who is Ahmed Hassan Imran? Ahmed Hassan Imran is a Rajya Sabha MP
from West Bengal at present. In 1975-76 he founded West Bengal Muslim Students
Association. In 1977, Imran co-founded the Students Islamic Movement of India
(SIMI) in Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh”.
It doesn’t stop there. This Ahmed Hassan
Imran is suspected to be not an Indian but technically a citizen of Pakistan: “A Pakistani
citizen is now a TMC member in the Rajya Sabha, courtesy West Bengal Chief
Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee. Ahmed Hassan, aka Imran, is in fact a
Pakistani citizen, since he entered India from East Pakistan in 1970-71, before
the birth of Bangladesh”. Let’s move forward with the story:
“An explosion in
Burdwan town of West Bengal on Thursday (October 2) killed two people and led
to a cache of arms and explosives being discovered, causing the police to
suspect a terror link. The blast occurred around noon at a house in a
residential locality of Burdwan town, about 100 km from Kolkata, in the middle
of the festive season of Durga Puja. More than 50 improvised explosive devices
(IED), other explosives and wires were recovered from the flat. Shakil Ahmed
(32) was killed on the spot while Swapan Mondal (22) succumbed to injuries at
the… Hospital. A third, Hasan Saheb, is
stable and undergoing medical treatment while a fourth male resident is
absconding… fire brigade personnel were prevented from entering the house by
two women, who refused to open the door. Upon breaking open the door, the
police found them burning some papers. The women -- Ahmed’s wife Rumi Bibi and
Hasan’s wife Aklima Bibi – have been detained. Security agencies are now trying
to find out if the IEDs were meant to be used in Bengal or sent somewhere else.
Bomb disposal squads have also recovered a number of explosives and SIM cards
on the banks of the Damodar river near the town. The six people – four men and
two women – rented the house three months ago and told house owner Hasan
Chowdhury that they were setting up a workshop for making Burkhas. Chowdhury
didn’t check the identities of the tenants”
The house the potential terrorists used
belonged to Nurul Hasan Chowdhury.
You don’t need another guess to know that he too is a member of the TMC. He
leads the Burdwan unit of the TMC and his house also operates as its make-shift
office. Don’t be surprised – in this day and age Hasan Chowdhury, a political
leader, lets out his house to
people without knowing who they are or without any background check as he
claimed. The bomb-making guests of TMC had targets of Kolkata airport and a
dozen other targets (AajTak).
That just about summarises the sequence of events for us
If the bomb-makers had succeeded in
their plans there could have been a major carnage around Durga Puja in Bengal and who knows how many people may have been
killed. And we discovered all this only because a couple of bombs they were
assembling went off accidentally. MamataB’s Muslim-appeasement is not limited
merely to her govt policies or vote-bank politics. She has now reduced Bengal
police to levels of unthinkable stupidity after a major terror-threat. Dressing
up as a Muslim or praying as a Muslim is one thing but letting or asking the
police to cover up crimes, as is being reported, is a totally different thing
and this is what happened:
Over 50 explosives and other accessories
collected by the Bengal police from the Burdwan house were detonated and
destroyed. Why? What kind of criminal
police destroys evidence? In addition, the women involved in the operation
burnt a lot of papers which still left some corners legible. Forensic sciences can even investigate and
find clues even in fully burnt papers and items. What does the Bengal
police do? I watched with horror the TimesNow
reporter picking up pieces from the debris to show it to the camera while the
public was casually walking around inspecting the debris as if it were a
tourist spot. Is this how a state deals
with terrorists or potential-terrorists? And to all that, MamataB still
wants the state CID to deal with these incidents and refuses NIA investigation.
Nothing can be more comic. The Centre cannot be dictated by such comic stubbornness
if they plan to tackle terrorism seriously. Here’s Vicky Nanjappa who has been reporting on these events consistently:
India is strongly against cross-border
terrorism and faces the same problem with Pakistan. Why would we tolerate a
state where the govt acknowledges cross-border terrorism but refuses an NIA
investigation? There seems to be abundant evidence that this Ahmed Hassan of
TMC has been promoting extremism in Bangladesh and their govt has asked for
serious action on this:
“Indian
Muslims will live for India and die for India” said Modi in an interview to
a tainted, foreign news peddler. The Muslims involved in this entire episode
not only appear to have had a plan to kill people at large but even Muslims
across the border. Bengal govts, the present and the previous CPM, seem to have
a special sympathy for terrorists. The CPM is known to have political-murders
as a party policy. “Eminent terrorist”
Yasin Bhatkal was in custody
in Bengal but jumped bail mysteriously from Kolkata. And this is the same dumb
Bengal police that is investigating the Burdwan incident and related
cross-border terrorism?
“There
is no good and bad terrorism” said Narendra Modi at the UN. There is no
reason why one should tolerate a state govt which has members who not only
support terror activities in India but also have links to cross-border
terrorism. It doesn’t take Einstein to figure out that this cannot have been
going on for so long without the knowledge of many in power in Bengal. There
are problems at the LOC which Modi-Sarkar is now tackling firmly. Modi believes
in the federalism and greater autonomy of states. But terrorism and cross-border promotion of it cannot be merely the
state’s issue. It is a national security issue. Narendra Modi must
intervene and ensure a massive operation to weed out terrorists from Bengal is
undertaken. There is also the promise of
sending back illegal Bangladeshis. These issues must see signals of
actions. If these were mere election rhetoric there will be a very large price
to pay.
