Show proof or apologise, BJP leader tells YSR

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JUNE 28. The BJP has dared the Congress Legislature Party Leader, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, to furnish evidence within 24 hours to substantiate his allegation about RSS' involvement in the Guntur bomb blast or else tender a public apology.

Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, Mr. N. Indrasena Reddy, BJP floor leader in the Assembly, he said there were serious doubts about the Congress's own involvement in the Guntur violence in view of complaints by local Muslim leaders to the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, that political elements had a hand in it.

He said the Congress had a ``known background ''of fishing in troubled waters for political gain. Its own Chief Minister, the late Dr. M. Channa Reddy, had stated that dissident Congressmen had brought goondas from Rayalaseema and Vijayawada to spark communal riots in Hyderabad in 1990.

Alleging that certain foreign elements as well as political parties were bent upon destablising the Central and State Governments, he urged people not to get provoked since they would only be giving a handle to the mischief-makers. To a question, he said he would not be surprised if there was a link between the Congress and the ISI.

Asked whether he favoured a CBI probe into the Guntur incidents in view of the mutual allegations and the Government's admitted failure in identifying culprits in the series of bomb blasts, he said there was no need for it. He justified this failure on the ground that organised gangs were at work and they had covered their tracks well.

Condemning Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy's allegation, the BJP leader said it had become a habit with the Congress and certain Christian organisations to blame the BJP, RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal for every attack on religious institutions in spite of evidence to the contrary.

They had attributed Graham Staines' murder in Orissa to the Bajrang Dal but the Wadhwa Commission found no basis for the charge. In fact, enquiries into attacks on nuns in Madhya Pradesh had revealed that the Congress had a hand in them. Even the National Human Rights Commission and the National Minorities Commission had absolved the Sangh Parivar of many such allegations in the past.

Accusing Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy of indulging in `loose and irresponsible talk', he said the Congress leader had virtually given a good conduct certificate to Pakistan's ISI by absolving it of any blame in the bomb blast in Guntur. He said the ISI's role in fomenting trouble in different parts of India was a well- documented fact.

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