Union Home Minister (India) Statement on RSS and its true picture

The Union Home Minister should first Know Indian Culture and RSS before speaking

 The immature and inflamatory statement  given by the Union Home Minister is in line with the statement given previously by the Yuvaraj of Congress Party and perhaps a salute to him to gain favour from him ( san his new popularity in the Congress).  

Rahul Gandhi on 6^th of October 2010 at Bhopal, comparing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with the banned   Student's Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and declaring both as fanatical  is most immature and it appears to be given with an aim of appeasing the Minorities. This vote bank politics of Congress has damaged Indian nationalist feeling and was instrumental in dividing united India into two parts.

          It appears that the foreign educated and brought up Rahul Gandhi has little knowledge of ancient Indian history and culture. It would have been prudent if young Gandhi before speaking , gets well versed  ,studies and knows  facts about RSS and SIMI  their organization, aims and objects and then compare them. I am hereunder producing in precise a comparative study, with that of the study of Hinduism and Islam in nut shell for the benefit of readers.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)  i.e. (National Volunteer Organization or National Patriotism Organization, also known the Sangh, is a nationalist paramilitary volunteer organization in India. It is part of the Hindu nationalist Sangh Parivar. It was founded in 1925 by Dr. K. B. Hedgewar, a doctor from Nagpur, as a social and cultural organisation in British India, to oppose both British colonialism in India and Muslim separatism.

RSS volunteers participated in various political and social movements including the freedom movement and the organization became the leading Hindu nationalist organization in India.By the 1990s, the group had established numerous schools, charities and clubs to propagate its ideology.RSS volunteers are also known for their role in the relief and rehabilitation work during natural calamities and for running more than 100,000 service programs in education, health care, rural development, tribal emancipation, village self-sufficiency, and the rehabilitation of lepers and special needs children.

 Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar,  was a doctor in the central Indian city of Nagpur. Hedgewar as a medical student in Kolkata had been a part of the revolutionary activities of the Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar striving to free India from British rule. He had been charged with sedition in 1921 by the British Administration and was imprisoned for a year. After returning to Nagpur, he was briefly a member of Indian National Congress before he left it in 1925, to form the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. After the formation of the RSS, Hedgewar kept the organization from having any direct affiliation with any of the political organisations then fighting British rule. But  Dr. Hedgewar and teams of volunteers, took part in the Indian National Congress, led movements against the British rule. Hedgewar was arrested in the Jungle Satyagraha agitation in 1931 and served a second term in prison.The RSS was established as a educational body whose objective was to train a group of Hindus, who on the basis of their character would work to unite the Hindu community so that India could become an independent country and a creative society.

The Partition of India was a very traumatic event in the young nation's history with millions of Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims, attempting to escape the violence and carnage that followed. Noted Gandhian and recipient of the highest civilian award in India, Bharat Ratna, Dr. Bhagwan Das commended the role of the "high-spirited and self-sacrificing boys" of the RSS in protecting the newly formed Republic of India, from a planned coup to topple the Jawaharlal Nehru Administration in Delhi. The RSS was against tge division of India on Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Two-Nation theory.

          After the Independence of India, many organizations including the RSS aspired to liberate Dadra and Nagar Haveli from Portuguese occupation. In early 1954, volunteers Raja Wakankar and Nana Kajrekar of the RSS visited the area round about Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman several times to study the topography and also to get acquainted with the local workers who were agitating for the liberation. In April 1954, the RSS formed a coalition with the National Movement Liberation Organization (NMLO), the and Azad Gomantak Dal (AGD) for the liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. On the night of 21 July, United front of Goans, a group, working independently of the coalition, captured the Portuguese police station at Dadra and declared Dadra as free. Subsequently on 28 July, volunteer teams of the RSS and AGD captured the territories of Naroli and Phiparia and ultimately the capital of Silvassa. The Portuguese forces which escaped and moved towards Nagar Haveli, were assaulted at Khandvel and were forced to retreat till they surrendered to the Indian border police at Udava on 11 August 1954. A native administration was setup with Appasaheb Karmalkar of NMLO as the Administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli on 11 August 1954.The liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli gave a boost to the freedom movement against the Portuguese in Goa. In 1955, RSS leaders demanded the end of Portuguese rule in Goa and its integration into India. When Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru refused to obtain it by armed intervention, RSS leader Jagannath Rao Joshi led the satyagraha agitation straight into Goa itself. He was imprisoned with his followers by the Portuguese police. The peaceful protests continued but met with severe repressions. On 15 August 1955, the Portuguese police opened fire on the satyagrahis, killing thirty or more people.

          The RSS , earned recognition based on its volunteer work during the Sino-Indian War in 1962. RSS was invited by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to take part in the Indian Republic day parade of 1963. It along with several other civilian organizations took part in the parade. Later in 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak wars too, the RSS volunteers offered their services to maintain law and order of the country and were apparently the first to donate blood. In 1975, the Indian Government under its Congress Leader the Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi ( The Grand Mother of Rahul Gandhi), proclaimed emergency rule in India, thereby suspending the fundamental rights and curtailing the rights of the press.This extreme step was taken after the Supreme Court of India, cancelled her election to the Indian Parliament on charges of malpractices in the election^. RSS was instrumental in restoration of Democracy in India and thousands of RSS volunteers were arrested and put behind bars , while performing Stayagrah movement against the oppressive policies of the Congress. 'The Economist', London, described the movement as "the only non-left revolutionary force in the world". It said that the movement was "dominated by tens of thousands of RSS cadres, though more and more young recruits are coming". Talking about its objectives it said "its platform at the moment has only one plank: to bring democracy back to India.

          These are a minusule picture of the work done by RSS and it would take several books and pages to decribe its dedication and contibution towards the nation and its total selfless work done for the citizens of India.

Field Marshal Cariappa in his speech to RSS volunteers said "RSS is my heart's work. My dear young men, don't be disturbed by uncharitable comments of interested persons. Look ahead! Go ahead! The country is standing in need of your services" Dr Zakir Hussain the former President of India once told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on November 20, 1949 "The allegations against RSS of violence and hatred against Muslims are wholly false. Muslims should learn the lesson of mutual love, cooperation and organization from RSS.

Noted Gandhian leader and the leader of Sarvoday movement, Jayaprakash Narayan, who earlier was a vocal opponent of RSS had the following to say about it in 1977 "RSS is a revolutionary organization. No other organization in the country comes anywhere near it. It alone has the capacity to transform society, end casteism and wipe the tears from the eyes of the poor." He further added "I have great expectations from this revolutionary organization which has taken up the challenge of creating a new India"

Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)

The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) is an Islamic fundamentalist organization, which advocates the ‘liberation of India’ by converting it to an Islamic land. The SIMI was formed at Aligarh on April 25, 1977. Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi, Professor of Journalism and Public Relations at the Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois since 1987, was the founding President of the outfit. Currently, Shahid Badar is the national president of the SIMI and Safdar Nagori serves as the secretary-general. It originally emerged as an offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. The SIMI is an organisation of young fanatical students. Students up to the age of 30 years are eligible to be its member and after completing this age-limit they retire from the organization. The SIMI has declared Jehad against India, the aim of which is to establish Dar-ul-Islam (land of Islam) by either forcefully converting everyone to Islam or by killing. According to news sources, SIMI is reportedly securing generous financial assistance from the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, Riyadh and also maintains close links with the International Islamic Federation of Students' Organizations, Kuwait. The Chicago-based Consultative Committee of Indian Muslims has also been found to support SIMI morally and financially. It also has links with the Jamaat-e-Islam (JeI) units in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The SIMI is also alleged to have close links with the Pakistani-supported terrorist outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.

Opposed to democracy, secularism and nationalism, SIMI has been advocating among its followers - some 400 ansars (full-time cadres) and the 19,000 ordinary members - the need to oppose "man-made" institutions and work for the ummah (Muslim brotherhood). The cadres of SIMI consider the Afghanistan-based Osama bin Laden as a ‘true believer of Islam’ and look up to him as an epitome of ‘Islamic Hero’. According to Safdar Nagouri, General Secretary of SIMI, the outfit believes that Osama bin Laden is "not a terrorist'" and neither is Jammu and Kashmir an "integral part of India." At its congregations, messages and recorded speeches have been relayed from the Palestinian Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yasin and Qazi Hussein Ahmed, the Amir of the Pakistani Jamaat. SIMI is widely believed to be against Hinduism, western beliefs and ideals, as well as other anti-Islamic cultures. Among its various objectives the SIMI aims to counter what it believes is the increasing moral degeneration, sexual anarchy in the Indian society as also the ‘insensitiveness’ of a ‘decadent’ west.

SIMI activists were involved in the untoward incidents that occurred at various places in Maharashtra over the screening of controversial Hindi film ‘Gadar’. Eleven cases had been registered and 68 persons arrested in the incidents that had taken place in cinema halls in Sangamner, Washim, Parali and Bhiwandi leading to riots, communal tension and the death of one person.

In the March 16, 2001 clash between SIMI activists and the police in Kanpur six persons including an Additional District Magistrate were killed. Violence erupted when the police prevented SIMI activists from assembling at the Parade Choraha immediately after the Friday prayers to register their resentment against the alleged burning of Quran in New Delhi. Mohammad Aquil, a former student of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and an active member of the SIMI was arrested by the UP Police in a bomb blast case, which occurred on August 15, 2000 in the Sabarmati Express near Faizabad. The bomb blast had caused the death of 10 passengers and had injured 40 others.

The SIMI in also alleged to be responsible for the twin blasts in Delhi on May 9, 2001 in which one person was injured. The first bomb went off near the Army Headquarters and another bomb exploded in a parking lot on Dalhousie Road.The Gujarat government in a letter to the Union Home Ministry called for a ban on SIMI on the basis of the anti-national activities of the outfit in the state. The State police in May 2001 had arrested many SIMI leaders in Bhuj on the charges of arousing a communal flare up. The police had also invoked stipulations of the National Security Act against SIMI in Kutch after the cadres were found selling posters of Maulana Masood Azhar, Chief of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed who had been released in the terrorists-for-hostages swap in Kandahar. Similarly, the Madhya Pradesh government in May 2001 urged the Government of India to proscribe the Students Islamic Movement of India. The State government while giving details in a report stated that SIMI cadres had become a threat to peace and security in the state. In Madhya Pradesh, 41 cases have been registered against the outfit's activists. In the state, Indore and Ujjain are currently considered to be strong bases of the SIMI.

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          Indian culture is commonly known as Hinduism, Bharatiata or Hindutava and has been defined by the Indian Supreme Court as a way of life. The Gazetteer of India clearly mentions Hinduism or Hindutava as having the same meaning. The Hindu Characteristic of tolerance in faith, beliefs and observances has asserted itself, new modes of living together in harmony. The essence in Hinduism, has led to the research for universal in religion. Indian culture and its basic principle of unity and living in harmony have stood the test of time. The true spirit of Hinduism has ignored all barriers of Caste, creed and religion. From times immemorial it is there and found acceptance from Turks, the Persian, the Arabs, the Moghuls and English and all other foreigners and is today a fusion of several other cultures, with the more emphasis on building creative minds and Hindu way of spiritual enlightenment and thinking. It is instrumental in binding the Indian society into one harmonious unit.

          Indian civilisation is one of the oldest in the world. An evaluation and analytical study of Hindu mythology and writings reveals and produces it as the oldest. It was so developed and practical that it found acceptance in most parts of the world. The Indian culture, religion, education, spread and influenced almost every corner of eastern Asia, which includes China, Thailand, Malaya, Burma, Indonesia, Java & Sumatra, Japan etc. as mentioned in history. Indian cultural influence extended to west and Central Asia as well.. Indian culture and civilization, had stood the test of thousands of years, has been built, most of all by the labour, sacrifice and wisdom of Hindu sages, mystic saints,  savants and patriots and the people themselves.

The people of India have proved through ages that Hinduism is their spirit of living, and they have always rejected division on the basis of caste, creed and religion. Our Ancestors built Hinduism or Hindustani way of life to unit and fuse all religious and cultural difference amongst the people and further to build this nation into an economic power.

          To equate a Hindu organization with that to a fundamentalist Banned organization like SIMI is a sin and shows that Rahul Gandhi has neither known this country, its culture and religion nor understood its spirit of unity and nationalism promoted through Hinduism the way of life. It is advised that The Prince of Congress should come out of its robe and understand the spirit of India and its nationality, which is driven by the unity promoted through the Hindu way of living.  The appeasement policy of some the Congress Party towards fundamentalist’s Muslim organisation has unfortunately resulted in sowing of seeds of communal discord. The Vote Bank politics has made inroads towards calling Hinduism or Hindutava as communal, which is most shocking and is damaging the nationalist character of Hindu religious institutions and organisations.

         

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