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RSS relentlessly pushing ‘All Indians Hindu’ line, Akalis silent
WSN Network

LUCKNOW: At a time when Akali Dal's patron and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal was desperately trying to get an appointment with hardcore RSS man and BJP president Nitin Gadkari, the chief of the RSS Mohan Bhagwat was speaking in Lucknow, laying out the broad mindspectrum of his so-called cultural organization and an agenda for the BJP.

Here, for the benefit of the Badals of Punjab and their ilk, is a glimpse of such agenda: Bhagwat said the Hindu samaj "will never tolerate attack on the centres of Hindu faith and atrocities against innocent" and then addd that "All Indians are Hindus on the basis of traditions and ancestors."

Bhagwat was speaking at the local Saraswati Shishu Mandir, a part of a series of such schools run by the RSS where children are given reasonably better education but are also indoctrinated with RSS philosophy and a bigot's world view.

In a country that pays so much lip service to diversity, Bhagwat had the cheek to say: "Our huge society has one ethos and culture that''s why we are a nation." Lest men like Badal cannot get the message, he added: "The RSS was working on the basis of this very ideology."

"Keeping in view that fact that we all are Hindus, we should interact and work unitedly for the upliftment of the society," the RSS chief said. Now, it is the Badals turn to be inspired if he indeed thinks that "we are all Hindus". But if he doesn't, will he have the courage to ask the Sikhs not to be bothered by such statements and remind them that RSS was an enemy of the Sikhs as per a hukumnama of Akal Takht Sahib.

Injecting a rather scientific form of racism and giving it chromosomal respectability, Bhagwat said it had been proved scientifically that DNA of people living in Indo-Iranian plate was similar from the last 40,000 years. "Therefore we should live like brethren and compliment each other." For a Quom that lives by the dictum of "Sarbat Da Bhala", the suggestion that people of one race should live together happily is something of a poison philosophy.

Bhagwat and his ilk has been treading this agenda ever since he took over in April last year when at his very first appearance as an RSS chief, he had said that, “All the inhabitants of Hindustan are Hindus by virtue of their culture and way of life.”

The SGPC and the Badal-led Akali Dal have adopted a posture of complete silence in the face of continuous barrage of such statements from the saffron camp with which the Akali Dal has an alliance. Instead, the Badals have been on a please-the-BJP trip for quite some now.

13 January 2010
 

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