Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Extracts of the Resolutions Passed
Recently In Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha in Delhi
Resolution No. 01
Communal Disturbances
RSS views with grave concern the
recent spate of violent disturbances engineered by Muslim mobs in different
parts of the country. A series of communal out bursts in various places
such as Sambhal (UP), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Tamilnadu and Karnataka vitiated
the peaceful atmosphere in the country when a rumour emanated from Delhi
that a copy of the holy Koran was burnt. This rumour was seized as provocation
enough to indulge in burning of public property and assaults on police
stations in such distant places as Aurangabad, Pune, Nanded, Hydrabad,
Mumbai and Ahemedabad. Dreadful news has come from of Kanpur, which witnessed
unbridled violence in the name of Namaj on Juma day. Six people including
the local Additional District Magistrate were killed in broad day light.
The bullet that killed the ADM was fired from an AK-47 and was fired from
within the Masjid. Bomb attacks on temple took place and Idols were broken
and thrown away in gutters. The brutality with which four young workers
of the RSS, all between 17 and 26 years of age, were murdered by Muslim
hooligans, with the connivance of local Muslim police officer, in the Basanti
thana area of the South 24 paragana in West Bengal is bloodcurdling. None
of the culprits, not even the known suspects have been arrested as yet.
The Kolkata Bengali language paper, 'BARTAMAN' of 22-02-2001 described
it as "Kashmir being perpetrated." The incident can be traced to the nefarious
activities of the ISI, which is spreading its tentacles far and wide. Similar
ugly incidents followed in Siwan & Sitamari (Bihar) and Noida (UP)
where violent communalism disturbed normal social life. RSS urges the Central
and states Governments to put down with an iron hand all such violent and
anti-national m Machinations of extremist Muslim groups.
Resolution No. 02
Jammu & Kashmir
RSS feels perturbed over the recent
happenings in the state of J&K in general and in the Kashmir Valley
in particular. The Government's decision of unilateral cease fire did not
bring about the desired results. It is true that hostilities on the LOC
declined but there was no letup in terrorist activities in the Valley.
Along with targeting the civilian population, as is evident from the killings
of the innocent Sikhs, terrorist groups have, during the intervening period,
become so audacious as to strike at security installations and forces.
Three months should have been sufficient time for experimentation; but
the Government, in its wisdom, thought it fit to extend the time of the
cease-fire. Though RSS has no reason to doubt the Govt.'s assessment of
the situation, it would like to emphasise that the cease fire is not an
end in itself. It wants to emphasize that a dialogue with outfits that
are really interested in peace through negotiations be started at the earliest,
and at the same time insurgent terrorism be put down with an iron hand,
giving the security forces freedom of decision and action, including destruction
of the terrorist training centres in POK.
Acutely suffering from discriminatory
and partisan policies of the state Government for the last more than half
a century, a demand for Union Territory status for Laddakh and an agitation
for separate statehood for Jammu are getting stronger by the day. There
is also the problem of rehabilitating Kashmiri Hindus uprooted from their
homes. In view of the various aspects of this intricate situation, RSS
will set up a committee to examine the problem in depth, and make recommendations
within two months, which will be considered in coming July.
Resolution No. 03
Ram Janmabhoomi
RSS endorses the decision of the
Dharma Samsad called by VHP at MahaKumbh to go ahead with the building
of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya on a grand scale. It also-welcomes the wise decision
of the Dharma Samsad to allow sufficient time for the Government to do
away with the hurdles needlessly obstructing the temple construction over
almost a decade.
The ball is now in the Government's
court, and it is up to them to explore every avenue to respect the national
sentiment vis-a-vis the Temple. The unanimous will of the people has been
expressed in this respect several times before - especially through the
presentation to the President in 1993 of the world record of nearly 100
million signatures from all sections of our countrymen. RSS hopes no communal
or obstructionist tactics of interested groups will be allowed to succeed.
It also entreats the enlightened section of Muslims to come forth courageously
to lead co-religionists held in the grip of a few obscurantist, fundamentalist
self-professed exponents of Islam. In the meanwhile, RSS calls upon the
general masses, and Sangh Swayamsevaks in particular, to participate in
the step-by-step programmes planned by the Dharma Samsad for mobilisation
of public opinion in this regard.
Resolution No. 04
Cow Protection
RSS expresses deep anxiety over
the increasing decimation of the Cow and her progeny, which are held in
great reverence by the people of Bharat for thousands of years and which
constitutes the agricultural backbone of the country's economy. It is unfortunate
that a country with a long tradition of Cow-Protection should resort to
slaughter of cattle wealth just to placate a handful of Muslim groups and
earn a little foreign exchange. Slaughter houses are on an increase and
methods are being mechanised. Nearly 3 lakh cattle are mercilessly slaughtered
every day. Meat-export which stood at 70,000 tons in 1976, has by 1997
reached an enormous 13,80,000 tons. This activity is receiving government
support. Its various departments are providing monetary subsidies for the
construction of slaughter-houses, and for production and export of meat.
As a result the proportion of 430 Cattle for 1,000 population in 1951,
has come down to a bare 50 for the same number today. A special committee
to hike export trade in meat during the current tenth 5 year plan has been
appointed under the chairmanship of the biggest meat exporter at the time
when the 2600th birth anniversary celebrations of Bhagwan Mahavir, epitome
of non-violence and compassion, are under way, and more so when the current
year has been officially declared 'Ahimsa Year'. With the loss of Cow-wealth
dependence on foreign sources in respect of milk and milk products will
increase, and dependence on chemical fertiliser will be inescapable. Fertility
of the land will be depleted and millions of people engaged in cultivation
and cattle care will be rendered jobless.
Cow dung and cow urine have medical
ingredients. Their potential for generating energy, cooking gas and pesticides,
besides yielding organic manure, is well proved by modern methods. Dung
also assures fertility of land, a high-yielding potential, and promotion
of self-reliant villages and pollution-free industries. In a democratic
set up popular sentiments cannot be flouted. Cow-protection is an article
of faith. It was the cherished desire of all great men belonging to Vaidic,
Jain, Buddhist, Sikh and other faiths. Such eminent leaders as Maharshi
Dayananda, Lokmanya Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and others aspired
for it. An effective expression in this behalf has manifested itself from
time to time in the form of public agitations. Moreover prohibition of
Cow-slaughter is a mandate incorporated in the Directive Principles of
the Constitution.
RSS appeals to Parliament as the
representative body of the people to honour popular sentiment by legislating
a measure banning cow-slaughter throughout the country at the earliest.
It further urges the Central Government to immediately stop to meat export
and subsidies to slaughter houses and meat export enterprises. It urges
the Government to create a Central Goseva (Cow bare) Commission to attend
to issues of protection and promotion of cattlewealth and to safeguard
soil fertility.
Resolution No. 05
Demolition of Buddha Statues
Taliban rulers of Afganistan have
blasted the renowned Bamiyan statues of Bhagwan Buddha. All other statues
have also been demolished. The offer from some countries including Bharat
to buy those statues was turned down with the comment by the Taliban ruler
Mulla Umar that 'Islam orders us to become butshikans (iconoclasts) and
not butpharosh (icon sellers)'. Mahmood Ghaznavi too had similarly replied
about 1000 years ago while demolishing the idol of Somnath. RSS denounces
this act of demolition. How much this incident has stirred the conscience
of the whole world is evident from the condemnation of the ghastly act
by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, as also every civilized country of
the world. Some fundamentalists and pseudo-secularists in our country have
tried to defend this foul Taliban-act by describing it as a reaction to
the demolition of the so-called Babari structure in Ayodhya. But the Taliban
itself has refuted this argument. Babar too in the 16th century meted out
the same treatment to the Ram Temple at Ayodhya and other sacred temples
as the Taliban has now done: which made Guru Nanak call his army a "marriage
procession of sin." Countries which are denouncing this action include
even Islamic countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and Egypt, who even after
adopting Islam did not alienate themselves from their heritage and have
given a national tinge to Islam in their countries. In Bharat also some
enlightened Muslim intellectuals have stated that passing through the sieve
of Bharatiya culture Islam has acquired its own 'Ganga-Jamuni' hue in Hindusthan.
They termed the action of Taliban "madness perpetrated in the name of Islam."
They represent that section of the Muslim population who want to interpret
Islam in the modern context. Unfortunately such enlightened intellectuals
have not come forward to provide leadership to the common Muslim masses.
RSS appeals to such enlightened
Muslims to come forward to extricate the Muslim community from the seventh-century
mentality and establish that form of Islam which would be, in tune with
the present times, as also with the Bharatiya cultural concept of "Truth
is one and the wise ones describe it in various ways." Only such a form
of Islam will enable the Muslims of Bharat to emotionally relate themselves
to this land and serve the motherland.
Resolution No. 06
Bhagwan Mahavir Jayanti
The coming Chaitra Shukla 13, Kali
Yugabd 5103 (April 6,2001) marks the joyous and holy beginning of the 2600th
birth year of the 24th Tirthankar, Bhagwan Mahaveer. The life of Bhagwan
Mahaveer was a shining symbol of eternal principles like non-violence,
truth, non stealing, celibacy and non-acquisition, essential for universal
harmony and the well-being of all. Enlightened great men are a heritage
of the entire society. The value and relevance of the life of Bhagwan Mahaveer
and the principles he expounded assume vital importance in the present-day
climate vitiated by infatuation of material consumerism and power-mad politics.
The RSS exhorts all countrymen to
participate in programmes planned on the occasion of the 2600th Mahaveer
birth anniversary and draw inspiration from his life and ideals. RSS also
urges Swayamsevaks to participate in these programmes and also propagate
the life-mission and ideals of Bhagwan Mahaveer with a view to bringing
about social awakening among our people.
