Notwithstanding the vociferous emand by some parties for a ban on it, the Bajrang Dal is now setting up "security committees" across the country which, it claims, will function as vigilance groups against terrorists and anti-social elements.
"As the government has failed in matters of internal security, the Bajrang Dal has started constituting security committees," Surendra Jain, a spokesperson of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, told
PTI in Lucknow on Wednesday.
About 125 to 150 such groups have already been set up at the block level to gather information about terror suspects and pass it on to security agencies, he said.
It has been proved that terrorism
can be countered only with the effective support and contribution of society, Jain said, maintaining the Dal "has taken up the initiative in this regard though it has been repeatedly attacked by certain political parties who have blatantly been appeasing Muslims".