In Swami Aseeman and, the BJP seems to have a potent weapon for the Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP is on a roll in Bengal. It has pushed aside the Congress and the CPI(M) to become the main challenger to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress. And, it has been trying every trick in the book to get past the last obstacle. Mamata, however, has proved that she is more than a match. Now the BJP is banking on a communal polarisation in the state to do well in the Lok Sabha elections next year, and it might have been delivered a potent weapon for that. Swami Aseemanand, who was recently acquitted by the National Investigation Agency court in the 2007 Mecca Masjid bomb blast case, could play a key role in the state in the election campaign.
A former activist of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and an ideologue of the radical outfit Abhinav Bharat, Aseemanand, or Naba Kumar Sarkar, came to the limelight when he was booked in three bomb blast cases 13 years ago—the Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad, the Ajmer Sharif Dargah blast and the Samjhauta Express blast. He is said to have wanted to retaliate in kind to Islamic terror.
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