Author: K.S. Sudarshan
Publication: Organiser
Date: November 28, 2004
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=52&page=3
Introduction:
To slurry the image of the Hindu
society, which is showing signs of awakening after a deep slumber of centuries,
all the anti-Hindu forces, both indigenous and foreign, appear to be ganging
together. A campaign of calumny is being unleashed against all Hindu revered
icons. This iconoclasm starting with Swatantrya Veer Savarkar, the ideologue
of Hindu rashtra, has now made His Holiness the Shankaracharya of revered
Kanchi Kamkoti mutt its next target. He has been arrested most humiliatingly
by involving his name in the murder of a former accountant of the mutt
in September.
While investigating the above case,
Acharya had been cooperating with it. Under such circumstances, all of
a sudden to arrest him in Mehboobnagar, to transport him to Chennai in
the middle of the night by a special plane of the government of Tamil Nadu,
immediately take him by car to Kanchipuram and next morning producing him
before a magistrate and get a judicial remand of 15 days, not allowing
him to cook his own food and ridiculously insinuating that he was thinking
of fleeing to Nepal, all point to a well-planned conspiracy of sullying
the name of such a highly revered Shankaracharya. It is really a matter
of great concern that in doing so, all the guidelines given by the Supreme
Court to arrest any person have been flouted and human rights trampled
with impunity.
It is but natural that the Hindu
society is expressing its resentment in its traditional dignified ways.
All the sants, mahants, acharyas, mahamandaleshwars and the different Hindu
organisations have been expressing their opposition in the most democratic
manner. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Swayamsevaks have always been with
the society and are now also giving expression to the pent up anger of
this society in cooperation with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and other Hindu
organisations. Our Sarkaryavah has sent instructions to that effect to
all our provincial centres. More such smear campaigns may be carried out
in future. The need of the hour is to consolidate all the Hindu forces
and increase their power of resistance against injustice to the society.
The Sangh expects the Swayamsevaks to work in that direction. Only an awakened
and organised Hindu society will be able to defeat all such onslaughts.
