Politicising India's darkest hour

Congress leader Digvijay Singh is at it again. The latest salvo from him not only leaves him resembling a loose cannon but is in line with, and feeds into, the narrative that anti-India conspiracy theorists have been spinning in Pakistan since the 26/11 attack on Mumbai.

It is almost as if he took a page out of the ISI/LeT disinformation manual by trying to imbue the Mumbai terror attacks of the night of 26/11 and the killing of ATS Chief Hemant Karkare with a domestic/Hindu terror tinge.

This neatly segues in with the anti-India fiction brigade across the border (led by Zaid Hamid) who have been, since the first moments of 26/11, characterising it as a carefully stage-managed "drama" by the right wing forces in India to defame Pakistan, and to terrorise and eliminate officers who are investigating Hindu terror connections.

How come, they asked, that within the first few hours of the Mumbai attack, the head of the ATS Hemant Karkare (who was also heading the inquiry into the Malegaon blast, where it was alleged that some radical Hindu groups were involved) was shot dead?

Mere coincidence, you would say. But not for the India baiters from across the border. The killing of Karkare, along with two other senior officers, within hours of the attack; plus the "saffron band" worn by Kasab - indicating that he was an Hindu/non-Muslim(?); and that they "did not look at all like Pakistanis", were enough to convince the rabid elements across the border that it was an "Indian drama". And, believe me I am not making this up.

These are the same elements who questioned the 9/11 attack, which, according to them, was also an event stage-managed by the "Jews" and the right wing in America to malign the Muslims and use it as a pretext to invade Muslim lands and control its resources.