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Date: July 16, 2000
"In the present circumstances,
this meeting of the RSS is of great importance at both the national and
international level," said Jain Muni Acharya Lokprakash Lokesh, while inaugurating
the Adkhil Bharatiya Karyakarini Mandal (ABKM) of the RSS recently at Koba,
Ahmedabad. The new Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, Shri K.S. Sudarshan
and the General Secretary, Shri Mohan Bhagwat graced the occasion with
their presence. The meeting discussed the present situation and problems
facing the country and also planned future programmes for the organization
in the coming year.
While inaugurating the
meeting, Muni Shri Lokesh, a disciple of Acharya Shri Tulsi, founder of
Anuvrat Andolan, appreciated the nation-building mission of the RSS.
He said that the security of the nation lies not only in protecting its
rivers, mountains and boundaries, but also in preserving moral character.
He emphasized that the contribution of lakhs of RSS workers in this regard
will be noted in golden letters in the history of the country.
He further stated that
terrorism in Kashmir is growing like cancer and it is likely to affect
other states like Punjab. He further cautioned that it is no time
to remain silent on the issue of unity and integrity of our country and
hoped that in this context, the present meeting will be of great importance
of both national and international levels. He also paid homage to
the martyrdom of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee for Kashmir's integration and
also expressed his regards to Acharya Mahapardnyaji, who played an important
role in resolving the Punjab terrorist problem.
While criticizing the
present education system, he stated that today's education system generated
doctors, engineers and lawyers but not human beings with high moral character.
In this context, he pointed out that Dr Hedgewar, the founder of the RSS,
always emphasized on character building of our countrymen. He asked
for Indianization of our education system by introducing spiritual content
in the curriculum.
Sarsanghchalak, Shri
Sudarshan, while echoing the sentiments of Muni Shri Lokesh, observed that
in the midst of this materialistic world, one should not forget spiritual
evolution of self and dedication towards the country. He further
stated that if we adopt this path we would gain sufficient strength to
bring our country to the pinnacle of glory. He acclaimed Muni Shri
Lokesh as a renowned expert of the science of Preksha Dhyan.
The meeting paid tributes
to several recently expired personalities in Indian socio-cultural and
political life. Among them are renowned Sanskrit scholar Dr Vernekar,
noted Marathi author Shri P.L. Deshpande. Swami of Bhandasari
Peeth, Shri Haribabu Kansal, noted Hindi author Dr Ramvilas Sharma Congress
leader Shri Rajesh Pilot, noted social worker Shri Apporvaram Barua of
Assam, Shri Madanbabu Agrawal of the Vanvasi Kalyan Parishad, Shri Kewaljit
Singh of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat. The meeting passed a resolution expressing
deep sense of grief on the death of these personalities.
This important meeting
of the RSS was held in the beautiful premises of Preksha Vishwa Bharati
campus near Gandhinagar. Several important dignitaries including
Sahsarkaryavah, Shri H.V. Seshadri and Shri Madan Das, Sanghchalak,
Karyawah and Pracharak of different state units and regional levels; special
invities including Shri Dattopant Thengadi, Shri Ashok Singhal, Shri Kushabhau
Thakre, attended the meeting. On the backdrop of the simple podium,
a poem of Saint Narasi Mehta attracted everyone's attention. The
verse read: "One who is born in the holy land of Bharat and is a devotee
of Govind, how lucky are his parents, how lucky is his body."
The following two resolutions
were adopted:
Resolution No.
1
The autonomy resolution
passed by the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly, is, in the considered opinion
of the Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal (ABKM), fraught with disastrous
consequences. Not only does it give encouraging signals to the separatist
demands in various parts of the country, especially in the North East,
but it also manifests the divisive communal mindset of the National Conference.
It is clear that this resolution of J&K Government is a fallout of
the Kashmir policy pursued by past Government at the Centre-a policy characterized
by mindless drift and thoughtless appeasement, in utter disregard of our
overall national interests. Every opportunity to fully integrate
the State, like all other states that signed the Instrument of Accession,
was thrown to the winds.
Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee's
martyrdom of J&K's complete integration had opened the Government's
eyes, but it felt satisfied with mere "erosion" and not the abrogation
of Article 370 itself. The present autonomy resolution seeks to undo
even that quantum of integration, and take the State back to pre-1953 situation,
when Supreme Court had no appellate jurisdiction over the State High Court,
when the Central Election Commission had no powers to ensure free and fair
elections and the Comptroller and Auditor General had no supervisory authority,
nor was the State served by the Indian Administrative Service and such
other salutary provisions.
We can imagine the enormity
of the autocratic rule of the National Conference, which represented not
the will of the whole State, but only a part of it, namely, the Kashmir
Valley, from the fact that even today, about two lakh voters, who are entitled
to vote in an election to the Lok Sabha, cannot vote for the State Assembly.
The present resolution, ABKM feels, is only a step short of actual secession.
Things would not have come to this pass, had the transitory Article 370
been abrogated in time. But unfortunately, all major political parties,
except the BJP, saw it as a symbol of so-called secularism. Are we
not reaping the fruit of that ill conceived position?
The ABKM congratulates
the people of Ladakh and Jammu, the two regions of the State on their bold
stand to condemn the autonomy resolution. It is also gratifying to
note that the people of these two regions have risen above all narrow parochial
loyalties and considerations and have unambiguously voiced their resolve
to demonstrate to the world, that they want their regions to be fully and
unconditionally integrated with Bharat. The ABKM hopes that their
sentiments as well as their aspirations, both developmental and political,
are respected and seriously taken into account by the Central Government,
while talking to the Hurriyat leaders or discussing extravagant demands
of their partner.
The Government ought
to note that the autonomy resolution is the resolution of a section of
the people in the Kashmir Valley. Left it also not be oblivious of
the fate of lakhs of Hindus, who were hounded out of Kashmir Valley or
of those unfortunate crore of people who were left to the mercy of the
jehadi marauders of our neighbouring country only half a century back.
Why a few lakhs Hindus could not live with safety and dignity in a region
of 95 per cent Muslims, is a question that the so-called secular parties
and the media have to answer. They are rendered refugees even when
the State had not that much of autonomy, which it now is aspiring for.
The ABKM, therefore, urges upon the Government, to ensure that in any discussions
with the protagonists of autonomy, which is just a thin veil for azadi,
the uprooted Hindus of the Valley are rehabilitated in their home State
and involved in deliberations at every level and the political aspirations
of the Jammu and Ladakh regions are fully met.
Finally, the ABKM wants
to assert that all the people of the country intensely desire the full
and final integration of all the regions of the J&K State by abrogating
Article 370. Even those parts of J&K, which are under foreign
occupation, are to be integrated. This is the message of the unanimous
resolution of our Parliament passed only a few years ago. The whole
of Bharat shares the trials and tribulations suffered by the people of
J&K. And therefore the problem of J&K cannot be left to be
solved by a section of the people of J&K. The integrity and sovereignty
of the whole country is at stake. Therefore, the ABKM calls upon
all patriotic people to resist the demand of autonomy.
Resolution No.
2
The meeting of the ABKM
of the RSS strongly condemns the mischievous attempts of a major section
of Church leaders, backed by a section of the media to paint the RSS and
other Hindu organizations in dark colour by accusing them of atrocities
on the Christian minority in the country. A few stray incidents,
some of which are outright fake and concocted, are being propagated as
RSS machinations. A hue and cry is raised to malign the Sangh and
along with it, the entire Hindu society. The issue is even internationalized
unmindful of the country's long tradition of tolerance and adverse effect
on the image of our nation in the eyes of the world.
There can be no two opinions
as to providing security to all the religious communities, including Christians
and every incident of violence requires to be unreservedly condemned and
thoroughly dealt with by law enforcing authorities. But when every
incident, real or imaginary, is blown out of proportion and the obliging
propaganda mill picks it up to damn and condemn Sangh and other Hindu organizations,
the motives of the accusers become suspect. The Wadhwa Enquiry Report,
the National Commission of Minorities Report, the exposure of the falsity
of the alleged rape of nuns in Jhabua (MP) by VHP workers and of the concocted
rape case of Baripada, the testimony of the officials in the recent Mathura
murder and a few other non-existing offences betray the working of perverted
anti-Hindu mindset behind the stories of anti-Christian violence.
The vandalisation of the Christian cemeteries in Andhra Pradesh, the bomb
blasts at different places in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa, simultaneously
without any casualty and instant reaction that came from the church quarters
smack of a well-designed conspiracy of vilification.
It is indeed intriguing
why the Christian religious leadership, which often goes hysterical at
the very mention of some insignificant incident of violence, is maintaining
a stony silence over the mysterious death of three nuns in the convents
at Kottayam, Kerala, and over which the public including the Christian
laity, is so much agitated.
A matter of serious concern
is that the missionaries and the other Church authorities seem to be more
interested in fixing the guilt on their favourite Hindu scapegoats than
allowing the police to proceed unprejudiced with their investigations.
They are eager to join the ranks of mud-slingers than creating a healthy
climate congenial for impartial investigation. The entire investigating
process is thereby distorted, giving protection to the real culprits.
One fails to understand
why the Government authorities become apologetic concerning such reported
atrocities. It is sad but true that the country has to witness murders
and other criminal acts every year, quite a few of them brutal and barbaric.
They are due to local conditions, mutual rivalries and some other human
aberrations. It is only when the victim happens to be a Christian,
the tragedy becomes communalized. Not a single member of the Hindu
organizations could be connected with any of the crimes at any stage but
the accusation persists. Every single case of atrocity should be
in fact the exclusive concern of the law and order authority. Show
of a special concern to the Christian complaint lends respectability and
communalizes it.
The RSS views that conversion
is the biggest irritant. Neither the Sangh nor the law of the land
accepts that the right to propagate means right to convert. The Supreme
Court of India is unequivocal on this behalf. The Sangh has nothing
against Christian brethren or Christian faith but certainly against the
plan of the Church to "reap a great harvest of faith in Asia". In
certain North Eastern regions, such as East Arunachal and Tripura, where
the Hindu is vulnerable, conversion is forced at the point of gun.
Divisive political consequences follow religious conversions. Further,
conversion is not merely a change in the form of worship but a change in
the priority of loyalties. It also disrupts social harmony and cultural
traditions. Therefore, the Hindu views conversion as an aggression
on the Hindu society. Another major source of irrigation is the Christian
style of preaching denigrating Hindu gods and goddesses, which deeply hurt
the Hindu sentiments.
It is worth noting that
the Hindu society has exercised restraint in spite of all such provocations.
To mistake it as Hindu weakness is to betray ignorance of the working of
human nature. The ABKM calls upon the Christian Church to cultivate
the goodwill of the Hindu. That is the greatest guarantor of the
long range of interests of the Christians themselves.
The ABKM exhorts the
Sangh swayamsevaks and other Hindu workers not to get agitated over this
vicious propaganda but to maintain their usual cool and at the same time
be alert in exposing the truth about any such happenings in future.
