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 6th 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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