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After asking Hindus to procreate to avoid getting reduced to a minority in the face of growing numbers of Muslims and Christians, RSS chief ...

After asking Hindus to procreate to avoid getting reduced to a minority in the face of growing numbers of Muslims and Christians, RSS chief K Sudarshan has struck a note of warning against population imbalance in a letter that will soon reach thousands of swayamsevaks across the country. It8217;s not often that the Sarsanghchalak writes directly to swayamsevaks. The first such letter was probably written by Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, the second RSS chief, in the wake of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

Sudarshan8217;s letter outlines programmes like Hindu conventions the Sangh will hold during the birth centenary celebrations of Golwalkar, 8216;8216;Guruji8217;8217; to many, beginning February 24, 2006. Population imbalance, social harmony, swadeshi and Golwalkar8217;s thoughts will be discussed at these conventions to be organised in many towns.

8216;8216;Muslims are growing and Hindus are declining in number. Crores of rupees are being pumped into the country for conversion to Christianity. There are demands to introduce reservation for converts from SC/ST to Islam and Christianity. If such reservation is extended, conversions will go up manifold endangering the unity and integrity of the country,8217;8217; Sudarshan8217;s letter warns and asks, 8216;8216;Should we remain silent spectators because conversions are done with political motives?8217;8217;

Sudarshan exhorts volunteers to work aggressively to spread Guruji8217;s nationalist ideology. 8216;8216;If volunteers, both new and old, put their heart into awakening the society, the conspiracies of devilish forces can be foiled,8217;8217; Sudarshan says. 8216;8216;You won8217;t get this chance again, make all volunteers known to you work for this.8217;8217;

The two-page letter devotes its major portion to the RSS background and lists achievements in the last eight decades before shifting focus to the present. It describes how allied organisations like Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad came into being after volunteers were sent out to study problems before the society.

8216;8216;Political parties are now competing among themselves to make populist announcements and for immediate political gains but they don8217;t have time to ponder over their long-term implications. Infiltration from Bangladesh, to Assam, Bengal and Bihar is unabated but no government is ready to throw them out,8217;8217; the letter says.

The letter has already reached prant offices and copies will shortly reach volunteers based in India and abroad. It also asks volunteers to devote at least a week to make the Hindu conventions successful by visiting various localities. Though in not so many words, it expresses concern over falling attendance in shakhas and asks volunteers to resolve to ensure that attendance should not fall below 100 and hold regular boudhiks intellectual sessions.

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Directions for volunteers include: they should get in touch with 10 new people during the year; each volunteer should devote 15 days in the year to make the celebrations successful; and holding in every district at least one gathering of college-going youths. A volunteer said, 8216;8216;Such a letter by the Sarsanghchalak gives a personal touch to the celebrations.8217;8217;