Don’t know why our govt is helpless: RSS man in Madhya Pradesh

Singh also questioned the DNA of state government officials “to check whether they are really Hindus”. The RSS functionary was addressing a dharmasabha in this communally sensitive town that is home to Bhojshala, the disputed shrine where Hindus are allowed to pray on Tuesdays and on Basant Panchami, and Muslims on Fridays. This Basant Panchami falls on a Friday.

“You (administration) make a thousand plans for February 12 but our plan will confuse you. We are going to do something spectacular that day. We need number-one Hindus because they take part in our campaign, not number-two Hindus who support but remain in the background or number-three Hindus who converted to Islam because they were weak,’’ said Singh.

Hindutva leader Sadhvi Ritambhara was to address the gathering but could not make it. In a recorded message, she said she was not allowed to board the plane because she was late. The organisers called her no-show a conspiracy and warned of serious repercussions in 2017 or 2018, when assembly elections will be due in the state, saying, “If we know how to form governments we also know how to bring them down.”

Singh is one of the leading lights of the pro-Hindutva “Bhojshala movement”. In 2003, three people, all Hindus, had died in police firing after violence broke out near the shrine.