All for a few

The RSS Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha was held on March 14-16 and the current issue of Organiser carries...

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March 27, 2008 12:00 AM IST

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The RSS Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha ABPS was held on March 14-16 and the current issue of Organiser carries the text of the annual report presented by Sarkaryavah Mohan Bhagwat, detailing the activities of the Sangh. It also takes stock of larger developments.

It is sceptical about the economic outlook of the country and says: 8220;Besides this our food security is also gradually threatened due to this lopsided development policy. There is no abatement in rising unemployment, rising inflation and suicides by the farmers. Villages are being uprooted and concrete jungles in the name of towns and industrial areas are coming up on their vast agricultural lands. Retail traders are increasingly facing threats in a number of product areas. Big business houses are depriving the livelihood of even vegetable vendors. People are increasingly becoming victims of all those evils that accrue from a blind imitation of the economic development model that is in vogue in the west 8212; including the concentration of economic power in the hands of a few8230;8221;

The report further says, 8220;In their quest for power and their arrogance, party leaders fail to realise that they are inviting threats to the nation8217;s integrity and security also. Recent incidents against our own countrymen residing in Maharashtra and the kind of language used against them are clearly indicative of this. How far this dangerous tendency to subvert our national interest can go can be ascertained from an incident in the Northeast, where infiltrators from Bangladesh, who had been pushed out by the Arunachal Pradesh government, found shelter in neighbouring Assam, and have been rehabilitated by the government of Assam. It was this warped mindset that had been responsible in the past for providing safe passage to foreign aggressors coming to loot and destroy the Somnath Temple on our north western frontiers.8221;

Colonial agenda

AN editorial condemns China over unrest in Tibet. It says, 8220;It is a bomb waiting to explode. No amount of development rhetoric or propaganda window-dressing by China can conceal the simmering anger in the 8216;roof of the world8217;8230;

Chinese authorities sadly misjudged the determination of the Buddhist youth of Tibet, that they thought a clever mix of westernisation, consumerism, demographic dilution and media blitzkrieg will suppress the Tibetans8217; determination to liberate their country8230; Like all Communist dictatorships China has a deeply cultivated colonial agenda.8221;

Woman as pivot

Among the resolutions that the ABPS passed is one on women. It says, 8220;ABPS deems it shameful that woman are being increasingly subjected to indecent behaviour, eve-teasing, sexual exploitation, abuse, and other despicable crimes8230; Just to rely upon the laws promulgated by the government will be self-deceptive. Society must honestly realise that it is created by the institution of family and woman is the pivot of the family 8212; hence a developed society cannot be envisaged without an enlightened, awakened and empowered woman.8221;

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