The ongoing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus fracas and the government’s ham-handed reaction to the situation have not gone unnoticed by Jamaat-ud-Dawa founder and 26/11 plotter-in-chief Hafiz Saeed. While the Pakistani terrorist has rebuffed the Home Ministry’s assertion (based on a fake Twitter handle) that he is backing JNU student protestors, Saeed seems to have been deeply influenced by the daily crisis unfolding in India.

Sources in the Pakistani establishment confirm that, on Wednesday, Saeed met with his close confidants to chalk out a sinister strategy to attack India using the volatile situation here. He is betting on the fact that a few well-timed accidents/events would generate a disproportionate reaction from the pro-government forces, which would do much more damage than a hundred bombs. Based on snippets of conversation picked up by spies within Saeed’s fold – here are some worrying aspects of the new plan that aims to exploit India’s nationalistic fervour and chest-thumping to strike its very core.

Codenamed “Project Bharat Maa Ki Jai”, Saeed plans to export terror to India using an innovative method. Saeed reportedly confessed in the meeting that sending heavily-armed militants into India had become virtually impossible these days – so to beat a vigilant Indian Army and Border Security Force, he would have fidayeen attackers dressed as lawyers. They would then simply cross over the Line of Control while chanting slogans of “Bharat Maa Ki Jai, Pakistan Murdabaad”.

Saeed apparently informed his colleagues that, “No action or utterance of any person can be questioned in India if you invoke the name of Bharat Maa because one magical chant makes one a nationalist and above question.” The most-wanted terrorist allegedly even chuckled while saying, “In India, you can do all the BC, MC you want and still get away by chanting Bharat Maa Ki Jai!”

When one of his advisors questioned him about the feasibility of sending terrorists dressed as lawyers, Saeed apparently retorted, “Who will stop them? If the Supreme Court of India couldn’t stop them, you think some security-wallahs will dare touch them!”

After gaining entry into India, the fidayeen wouldn’t waste their lives with just one attack. They would first make their way to universities and stoke passions by chanting anti-India slogans. While such slogans have always been raised by a few revolutionary students since the days of the Naxalbari movement, Saeed noted that now the BJP government thinks that such utterances can lead to the collapse of India. The resulting crackdown of the government on such campuses using the garb of nationalism would be a huge destabilising factor for India and Saeed plans to encourage just that.

Not stopping there, the fidayeen would then go on a daring mission and throw chunks of beef in front of houses of prominent Muslim families and temples in areas where both communities have lived in peace for years. The resulting indignation caused to Hindu leaders will result in massive mobilisation of party workers and summary killings of anyone suspected of having any meat in his freezer. “What better way to give India a thousand cuts – without firing even one bullet,” Saeed told his close associates with a sense of triumph.

Apparently, JuD is already busy creating diversionary tactics to keep the police busy as this devious plan is executed. First, there would be a barrage of “blasphemous” anti-India tweets that would reach the Delhi Police. This would keep them busy since Commissioner Bassi had vouched to focus fully on such tweets and arrest the people who send them. Also to move around undetected, the fidayeen will use autos – since the police take a long time to find their drivers; even after girls working in reputed companies are kidnapped in them during office hours.

Other aspects of this “stealth terror strike” would be looking at how to replicate the Vyapam model across India, the Pakistani terror outfit is amazed at the prospect of killing more than 50 people without even the slightest of evidence of who did it!

The Pakistani intelligence agency is convinced that Saeed is abandoning a militaristic approach towards India. Instead he will use Indian Nationalism to spread hooliganism. This time more than just the Hindu-Muslim divide, JuD will use patriotism to attack people and create mass polarisation in India. A major tool in this act would be social media platforms (Facebook/WhatsApp/Twitter), where anyone believes any statement, pictures, quote, ascribed to anyone. Using this simple modus operandi all sorts of vicious, untrue (like this article), provocative material would be spread across the Internet to attack the very fabric of India that has always accommodated a multitude of religions, beliefs, views and slogans. But using the slow poison of misinformation, jingoistic patriotism, name-calling and slander, Saeed is confident that project “Bharat Maa Ki Jai” will be able to weaken the solid edifice of India that can then be shaken by the smallest of incidents.