New Delhi: The government on Wednesday attacked the Congress over fresh developments in various terror probes, saying the party had an agenda in coining the term "saffron terror" .
"The terminology was given by that party as it was working with an agenda", Minister of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju, told the media.
This comes a day after National Investigation chief NIA chief Sharad Kumar gave a clean chit to accused Lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit -- a
member of right-wing fundamentalist group Abhinav Bharat -- in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case.
Rebutting charges that the NIA was acting under government orders, Rijiju said," This government will strictly go by the rules. We don't work with any bad intentions. We don't pressurise the probe agencies."
He also claimed during the tenure of the UPA government, officers were pressurised to go out of the way in certain cases.
The term 'saffron terror' was used by ministers in the former UPA government when members of right-wing fundamentalist groups were named in connection with terror incidents like the Samjhauta blast and the 2008 Malegaon blast.
Another Union minister, Prakash Javadekar, accused the Congress of hatching a "conspiracy" and using investigating agencies for "political reasons" in two other probes -- the Ishrat Jahan and Malegaon blast cases.
"The revelation that the NIA has made is very important. The manner in which this whole situation is now emerging, facts which have come out in the NIA investigation about Ishrat Jahan are very surprising.
"This is a clear example of where things can lead you if you use investigative agency under some conspiracy, if you use agencies only for political reasons," he said attacking Congress without naming it.
Javadekar was responding to a question about NIA reportedly reversing its earlier stand of having no evidence to link nine Muslim men to the September 2006 Malegaon bombings as well as the different stands taken by the Home Ministry during UPA regime on Ishrat Jahan case.
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