Hindu can never be a terrorist, says Haryana Minister Anil Vij

A Hindu can never be a terrorist and there cannot be any term like “Hindu terrorism,” senior Haryana Minister Anil Vij said on Wednesday, debunking that the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast was the handiwork of a group having right-wing leanings.

The outspoken Health Minister alleged that the former Congress-led Central government had engineered a “political plot” in the blast case to show that “Hindu terror exists.”

Reacting to Mr. Vij’s statement, the Congress said a Hindu could not be a terrorist, only a Sanghi could be one. Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said, “

Unhone sahi farmaaya hai, Sanghi aatankwaadi hota hai...Hindu aatankwaadi kabhi nahin hota ” [Anil Vij has rightly said, a Hindu can’t be a terrorist, only a Sanghi can be one].”

(With ANI inputs)