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We are soft targets in 'saffron terror' conspiracy: Sanatan Sanstha

  •   Sat, Oct 07 2017 03:51:59 PM

Panaji, Oct 7 (IANS): The RSS has been the Home Ministry's main target but Left-aligned forces are targeting the Sanatan Sanstha because we are "soft targets", a spokesperson for the Goa-based Hindu rightwing organisation said on Saturday.

Speaking to reporters, Chetan Rajhans, the spokesperson for the Sanstha based in south Goa's Ramnathi village, said no official of the Karnataka Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gauri Lankesh murder had questioned any Sanatan member nor visited its ashram here.

"Sanatan Sanstha's name is often raked up after the death of rationalists. It is because we are a soft target.

"After 2013, the Home Ministry has been working on a saffron-terror conspiracy. They had to target some Hindu organiztion. Their big targets were the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

"But because they could not target them, we are being targeted instead. I believe that Left-aligned forces are continuing to follow the same trajectory," Rajhans said.

Dismissing media reports which claimed that the Karnataka SIT had zeroed down on "missing" Sanatan Sanstha members as the suspects in the Lankesh murder, Rajhans said: "Some anti-Hindu forces are behind this and there is a planned conspiracy to defame Hindu organisations."

He added that leaks to the media was "false propaganda" and no agency of the Karnataka government had officially issued a statement naming the "missing" Sanatan Sanstha members as suspects.

Earlier this week, some media reports quoting sources said that Sarang Akolkar alias Sarang Kulkarni, Jay Prakash alias Anna and Praveen Linkar were on the SIT's radar in the connection with the journalist's murder.

Rajhans also said that the Sanstha condemned Lankesh's murder and said that several angles had cropped up during the investigation, including theories involving Naxalites.

"We have only one demand. Don't put political pressure. Let the investigation agencies probe. If the agencies want co-operation from us, we are fully ready," Rajhans added.
  

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Sun, Oct 08 2017

    This is not the first time that Sanatan Sanstha has come under scanner for terror activities.
    The CBI last year had arrested a senior functionary of Sanatan Sanstha and Hindu Janjagriti Samiti in connection with the murder of Narendra Dabholkar.
    Dr Virendra Tawde was arrested in Mumbai after the CBI conducted raids at his residence earlier this month.
    Tawde, a former ENT surgeon at JJ Hospital, on the CBI’s radar and was questioned for over an hour at a Panvel farmhouse in December 2015. He has been a Sanstha sadak for more than 15 years.
    Just days after Karnataka Home Minister revealed that they had identified the killers of journalist Gauri Lankesh, five members of the Hindutva brigade Sanatan Sanstha have been described as key suspects behind her murder on 5 September. Of them four have Interpol red-corner notices against them for their alleged involvement in a bomb blast in Madgaon in Goa in 2009.
    The five suspects were Praveen Limkar, 34, from Kolhapur; Jayaprakash alias Anna, 45, from Mangalore; Sarang Akolkar, 38, from Pune; Rudra Patil, 37, from Sangli and Vinay Pawar, 32, from Satara.
    Since 2009, the sanstha has been accused of the murders of Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare. The accused in the Dabholkar case, Virendra Tawde, was acquitted for lack of evidence.

    Six years later, on June 17, 2017, during the All Hindu Conference, Samir Gaikwad, the accused in the Pansare case, was granted bail.

    One morning, during the early monsoons of 2008, villagers of Ponda woke up to a strange stench rising from the fields. As the water receded, it had left behind over 1000 used condoms.The sanstha has since claimed that the condoms were purchased for married couples who live in the ashram.

    Starting out as just a fringe irritant, the shadowy organisation has been emboldened by the Goa BJP government’s support.
    Jai Hind

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  • Kevin, Mangalore

    Sat, Oct 07 2017

    The circumstantial evidence connecting Sanatan Sanstha connecting to violence is daming. Limkar, Anna, Akolkar and Patil , presumed members of Sanatan Sanstha, are also suspected to have played a major role in the October 19, 2009 bomb blast in Madgaon where two Sanatan Sanstha men were killed while transporting an IED that was to be planted at a Diwali program in Madgaon.

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  • Joseph F. Gonsalves, Bannur, Puttur / Mangalore

    Sat, Oct 07 2017

    Dera Baba did not accept his guilt till last moment.

    Once he was convicted then he started to beg for mercies till that they will go on deny as if they are angels.

    Honeypreet Insan has said she has not done anything wrong.

    Aashram Baapu says he hasn't done anything wrong.

    Yoga Guru Bikram Choudury denied that he hasn't raped any girls/women while teaching yoga in the U.S.A.

    ONCE BIKRAM CHOUDURY WAS CONVICTED TO PAY HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY THEN HE WAS DEPORTED AND QUIETLY SETTLED IN THE LONAVALA HILLS IN MAHARASTRA AFTER SETTLING THE LAW SUIT IN THE USA.

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  • Swamy, Mangalore

    Sat, Oct 07 2017

    Just like terrorists have no religion so are these. Its time for like minded, righteous, upright Hindus to rise and form a party to crush these fake and misleading Hindu organisations.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Oct 07 2017

    Internal rivalry because Jharkand is a BJP ruled state ...

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Oct 07 2017

    Should get worried only if they Murder ...

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  • abdul samad, mangalore

    Sat, Oct 07 2017

    EVEN PAKISTAN HAFEEZ SAHED SAYING SAME LOL

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