Yet another report of the judicial inquiry commission on a communal riot has come 2.5 years after the carnage: this time on Jamshedpur steel-town in Bihar’s tribal belt that engulfed in a major bloodbath in April 1979 resulting in 108 (official figure) deaths. The Commission headed by Justice Jitendra Narain, formerly of the Patna High Court, has directly blamed the RSS and its two front organizations’ BJP (then called the Jan Sangh) and the BMS for being responsible for the riots.
And after the Jamshedpur riot, we had Moradabad, Hyderabad and Biharshreef and many other minor riots. Every day we have one or more. Over 5,000 communal incidents since the Independence. The Jamshedpur inquiry commission has directly indicted the RSS and particularly its chief, Deoras, and the local MLA, Dinanath Pandey. The trump-card of the ISS is communal riots. The RSS can make inroads into an area only if it succeeds in engineering a riot. This is the secret behind every riot. At Jamshedpur. RSS wanted a riot to wean away the Tata Iron and Steel Co. workers and others from Leftist unions and bring them under the umbrella of the pro-capitalist Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh, the trade union front of the RSS. Pandey had reportedly testified to this effect before the inquiry commission. Yet another purpose behind this riot is to Hinduism the tribals who actually are not Hindus but animists. RSS and many other organizations are currently engaged in a multi-million rupee foreign-financed projects to Hinduism the Bihar tribal’s so that they do not get converted to Christianity. later agitate for a separate state of Jharkhand and thus go the way of their North- eastern counterparts. The RSS thus scored a double-victory in Jamshedpur: checking the growth of Left movement in the Steelton and weaning the tribals away from Christian missionaries who have done marvelous service to the tribals. The evidence before the commission has hinted at the indirect blessings the RSS got from the TISCO management. So, it was a very deep-rooted conspiracy. Tribals, who led the attack on the Muslims-also equally poor industrial workers-were told by the RSS that their enemies were not the industrial tycoons who exploited the tribal areas but the Muslims RSS, which succeeded in introducing the communal virus in this industrial city, has actually killed two birds with one stone : the Left movement suffered a setback, BMS was able to capture the trade unions and secondly, turn the wrath of the tribals from their real exploiters, the industrial tycoons, to imaginary enemies, the poor Muslims How beautiful. No doubt Deoras has quickly dubbed the verdict as “absolutely false, baseless and politically motivated”. This is their ‘ usual song whenever a verdict goes against it. After executing a communal riot, RSS is always the first to demand a judicial probe. At Jamshedpur too, the RSS was the first to shout. Dinanath Pandey was so confident of suppressing the facts and managing to considerably delay the verdict, that he said Commission would “expose the inter- national conspiracy of the Muslims”. When the verdict went against the RSS, they came out with their stock statement calling the whole thing baseless. But it was only couple of days back that RSS leaders were shouting that so far not a single inquiry commission had held RSS responsible for the communal riots. RSS has been repeatedly indulging in such false propaganda. Because its agents are there in the “national press””, it gets wide publicity for its lies. But what are the facts? Madon Commission report on Bhiwandi- Jalgaon riot of 1970 (Vol. vi part vi, para 103-155) says: “Rastriya Utsav Mandal, majority of whose members belonged to the Jan Sangh were responsible for the riots”. The Commissions noted that the important leaders of the JS were from the RSS. A similar verdict against RSS had come in the Tellichery, riot as well. We have no illusion that the latest report will end all future communal riots Judicial commissions have proved to be useless Not only the verdict is delayed but no action taken on that. Meanwhile, Hindu fascist forces are out to finish the untouchables tribals, OBCs and the minorities. That is why it exploited the Tamil Nadu conversion of a few hundred untouchables to Islam and described it as a national crisis. The motive behind raising such a hue and cry over ‘ N was to start a communal riot there and then make inroads into this State which had been its weakest link. The conversions gave it an ideal opportunity. But its calculations misfired However, the conversions have helped the RSS to pitch its tent in TN also It has thus succeeded in spreading its wings all over India, getting ready for many more Jamshedpur’s. Dalits, persecuted minorities and all other progressive forces must get ready for the fast-approaching battle with the RSS out to clamp a class-caste fascist dictatorship over India.
