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Man who prides himself on
beating girls leads Hindu agenda again
WSN Network
 New
Delhi: Communal agenda continues to rule the right wing politics in
India and no amount of shame heaped on the card carriers of
fundamentalism and intolerance preached by the larger Sangh parivar
can possibly change the intentions, ways and minds of those
indoctrinated by the RSS ideology.
It was clear as
Pramod Muthalik, founder of the Sri Ram Sene that attacked women in
a Mangalore pub in January this year, addressed in
New Delhi
“over a hundred delegates” of Hindu organisations at a meeting held
at an “ashram” in Paharganj, near the New Delhi railway station.
Muthalik, who
has earned notoriety for attacking pubs, vandalizing churches, and
making inflammatory speeches across Karnataka, held forth on his
“Hindu agenda” before his audience — a gathering of representatives
from fringe organisations having past associations with the RSS, and
in some cases, the BJP’s student arm, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad (ABVP).
While Muthalik
has addressed several meetings in the southern states and
Maharashtra
in the past, this was his first foray into the national capital.
Muthalik is
facing around 40 cases in the state. The delegates who attended the
meeting at Muthalik’s invitation, provided some details of what
transpired.
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“After this
fruitful meeting, we now need to fan out to universities and
make sure that women students adhere to a dress code. Else they
would continue to be waylaid by youth of other communities.” |
Muthalik is said
to have told them: “Pubs, Valentine’s Day, and universities will
stay high on our priority list. We now need to focus on the plight
of the Hindus in countries like Sri Lanka and Malaysia as well. We
have constituted a 15-member body to coordinate our activities
across the country.”
Rajeev Chauhan,
who claims to have headed the student’s union at Meerut’s Chaudhary
Charan Singh University as an ABVP leader in 2004 and now runs an
organisation called Hindu Yuva Samkalp, said: “After this fruitful
meeting, we now need to fan out to universities and make sure that
women students adhere to a dress code. Else they would continue to
be waylaid by youth of other communities.”
Sri Ram Sene’s
Vilas Pawar, who is also a deputy to Muthalik, said: “There are
leaders like Indresh in the RSS who have now taken to appeasing
Muslims by launching a forum like the Rashtriya Muslim Manch. We
need to resist such tendencies, and fight for the Hindu cause.”
 Dhananjay
Desai, who heads the Mumbai-based Hindu Rashtra Sena, and was
present at Muthalik’s meeting, said: “I organised the attack on Star
News in Mumbai in 2006 for carrying a story on a Hindu girl who had
been kidnapped by a Muslim boy.”
Around 12
organisations turned up for the meeting, it is learnt. These
organisations go by names like Hindu Sanskriti Manch, Hindu People’s
Party, Dara Sena, Hindu Yuva Sena, Raudra Sena, Hindu Makkal Katchi
and Abhinav Bharat Manch.
Muthalik was
present in Delhi on Saturday, the first day of the two-day meeting.
He returned to Bangalore on Sunday to report to the police in one of
the many cases he faces in the state.
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September 2009
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