Author: PTI
Publication: Rediff.com
Date: October 12, 2008
URL: http://us.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/12ban.htm
National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has
suggested a ban on Bajrang Dal may not be sustainable and refused to term
the Sangh Parivar outfit and SIMI as two sides of the same coin, leaving Railway
Minister Lalu Prasad peeved and prompting the BJP to speak of another disconnect
between the NSA and the government.
Replying to a pointed question about a ban
on Bajrang Dal, he told NDTV more number of Dal activists should be arrested
"based on the information we have ... you can ban it but you will then
not be able to sustain it".
He said as was the case with SIMI. "The
evidences collected over a long period of time got up on procedural matters....you
may get a vicarious pleasure of saying banned or not banned. What you need
is to prevent them from acting and I think that is what needs to be done,"
he said.
"You cannot ban an organization unless
you build your case against it," he said.
The NSA said there was a need to effectively
deal with organisations like SIMI and Bajrang Dal "because then there
are many copycat organisations ... several micro units of the same kind may
come up".
Responding to another specific question, he
said, "SIMI and Bajrang Dal are not two sides of the same coin, but both
of them are dangerous."
Narayanan said he was a firm believer that
militant outfits "under whatever dispensation they are, should be banned".
