RSS is threat to national integrity, says SIMI

Author: HT Correspondent
Publication: Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Date: June 26, 2001
 
The National general secretary of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Safdar Nagori, has alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was "a major threat to the unity and integrity of the country" Addressing a press conference here at a hotel this afternoon, the national leader of this pan-Islamic youth organisation said that there was an urgent need to put the RSS and its Parivar in check. "If the Sangh Parivar is not checked, there would be anarchy all around the country." Referring to the VHP national meeting in Bhopal regarding construction of Ram temple, he said that the Sangh Parivar was again planning to 'shed blood' in the country "They should be stopped".

Nagori, a mechanical engineer by profession who is doing a PhD in Mass Communication, deplored that CM Digvijay Singh was implementing the agenda of the RSS. He said that he failed to understand how and why the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh should have faith in the Sangh Parivar. After the Babri demolition, he still believed that the Sangh Parivar would not indulge in such activities. "Digvijay Singh shares platform with the former chief of the RSS, Sudarshan. In fact, the Chief Minister is working on the Sangh's agenda." Nagori said, "It hurts when the State Government equates SIMI with the Bajrang Dal. The Chief Minister should not indulge in this balancing act, it is really painful." Though he condemned the Pakistan's secret agency ISI, he refused to criticise Bin Laden, the controversial Islamic leader allegedly financing the Afghanistan terrorists. "Laden has only been accused by America, the international moral police, and unless anything is proved against Laden, I would not comment."
 

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