Hindutva terror is making its presence felt: Book

New Delhi: A book by a Left-oriented writer claims that Hindutva terror has emerged and says a Himalayan task awaits the investigating agencies which are yet to nab any of the masterminds "despite ample evidence".

The book titled "Godse's Children - Hindutva Terror in India", written by Subhash Gatade, alleges that the blast in an RSS activist's house in Nanded, Maharashtra, had brought to the fore the systematic manner in which people associated with it and allied groups were engaged in making and storing explosives, imparting arms training and planning to bomb minorities as part of the mission to establish "Hindu Rashtra" in India.

It was on April 6, 2006 when Nanded witnessed a blast at the house of Laxman Rajkondwar, a long time RSS activist, killing his son and another Sangh activist, it says.

"Five years later, investigating agencies are in the know of involvement of Hindutva supremacists in dozens of blasts like Malegaon and Samjhauta Express," it says.

The role of international linkages and networks of different Hindutva formations in collecting funds, mobilising resources and supporting the cause has added further ferocity to this project, says the author, who has extensively written on issues of communalism and Dalit emancipation.

The book has a chapter "First terrorist of Independent India" which details how Nathuram Godse and his accomplices carried out the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

The author, however, makes it clear that "this does not mean we are absolving the jihadi terrorists of the criminal acts they are engaged in nor we consider them less dangerous for the furtherance of peace, justice and progress in today's world".