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Publication: The Times of India
Date: August 30, 2003
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
general secretary Mohan Bhagwat claimed that that terrorism would end only
the people of India took steps to ensure their security rather than depending
on the government and the administration.
Addressing a public function here
on Friday, Mr Bhagwat said the RSS had recently floated a new outfit, the
Rashtriya Suraksha Samiti, mobilise people to combat terrorism. "It is
only the people and not the state apparatus alone which can bury terrorism,
as has been demonstrated in Punjab,'' Mr Bhagwat told RSS cadres who marched
from the Cotton Exchange to the Gateway of India in south Mumbai on Friday.
At both the places, homage was paid
to the victims of the Monday bomb blasts with speaker after speaker expressing
determination to finish the threat of terrorism. Mumbai BJP president Bhai
Girkar, MLAs Atul Shah,Mangal Prabhat Lodha and Raj Purohit, Akhil Bharatiya
Vidyarthi Parishad secretary Pravin Ghuge, Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader
Ramesh Mehta and RSS regional organiser Bapusaheb Mokashi were among those
who joined the procession.
Mr Bhagwat said history had established
that terrorists intensified their strikes when their philosophy and arguments
failed to attract people. The Samiti would prepare the people to face terrorism
with courage. It would also motivate them to take up rescue and relief
works in times of emergencies.