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.