Terrorism has no colour, says Rajnath Singh

New Delhi: Levelling serious charges against the earlier Congress-led UPA government, home minister Rajnath Singh accused it on Thursday of hatching a “deep conspiracy” to frame Narendra Modi, then Gujarat CM, in the Ishrat Jahan case by allegedly altering an affidavit on the matter.

Replying to a call attention motion on the alleged change in the affidavit on the Ishrat case, the home minister said the previous government had done a “flip-flop” on Ishrat Jahan’s links with terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT).“Unfortunately, I have to say that there was a flip-flop by the UPA government in the Ishrat Jahan case,” he said.

Without naming his predecessors in the home ministry in the UPA government, Mr Singh accused them of giving “colour” to terrorism by coining the term “saffron terror”.

Amid protests and slogan shouting by Congress MPs who trooped into the Well of the House, Mr Singh charged that the erstwhile Congress-led government of coining terms like “saffron terror” and “Hindu terror”.

“Colour, creed and religion should not be associated with terrorism. Terror has no colour... The seculars gave colour to terrorism. Selective secularism cannot be accepted by the country,” the home minister said.

He said the recent statement by LeT terrorist David Headley before a Mumbai court reaffirmed the first affidavit filed by the UPA government on August 6, 2009 before the Gujarat high court which said Ishrat had links with LeT.