In an affidavit before a Nanded court, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker has alleged that Hindu right-wing groups such as RSS, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal are engaged in terrorist activities for BJP’s political gain. Yashvant Shinde, a 49-year-old Mumbai resident, has sought that a VHP leader and another person, who is also an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, be made accused in the Nanded blast case.
The Nanded blast took place on the intervening night of April 4 and April 5, 2006, allegedly at the home of an RSS activist, injuring two youths associated with Bajrang Dal.
The men were allegedly assembling a bomb to target a mosque in Aurangabad. The trial of the case is underway before the Nanded court.
Shinde has also sought that he be made a witness as he is privy to the conspiracy when it was allegedly mooted in Khetwadi in South Mumbai in 2003.
He has said in his affidavit that he was associated with these right-wing groups since the 1990s when he was 18 years old. He has claimed that he received a message in July 2003, asking him to attend an important meeting in Khetwadi. At the meeting, two persons informed him that a training camp to make explosives will be organised as there was a plan to execute bomb blasts across the country.
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