Sangh chief says Muslims for cow slaughter ban, Govt reluctant

“Muslims are being wrongfully produced in witness box for the Government’s inability to pass the anti-cow slaughter Bill.

•“Muslims are being wrongfully produced in witness box for the Government’s inability to pass the anti-cow slaughter Bill. Muslims are not against ban on cow-slaughter; in fact they are in its favour.”

•“Nepal and Tibet should have been incorporated into India at the time of Independence since this was the wish of both the regions. But Nehru didn’t let it happen.”

•“Gurjjars are placing their own interests before national interests and have stopped the functioning of railways, roads and administration with the power of their stick.”

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In his address to trainees at the end of third year of an RSS officers’ training camp, Sangh chief K S Sudershan on Sunday had a new take on several old, favourite issues with the Parivar.

According to him, Muslims were unfairly blamed for cow slaughter. “As a matter of fact, even the most fundamentalist of Muslims… says that there is no diktat in the Quran to kill cows. In fact, they say a Hadis has termed cow’s flesh as poison and cow urine as nectar.

At a recent conclave in Delhi, some 4,000 Muslim representatives passed a resolution in favour of a cow-slaughter ban, and at another conclave, the Qureshi community took a vow that they would neither butcher a cow nor sell its flesh,” Sudershan claimed, adding, “it is the rulers who are raising this bogey” in order to delay a Bill against cow slaughter.

Responding to an appeal by the chief of Shimoga Peeth Swami Raghaveshwar Bharati, the chief guest, Sudershan went on to claim that saving the cow could help stop farmers’ suicides. “Farmers have forgotten natural farming done with cow’s help,” he said.

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Sudershan criticised the Gurjjars for resorting to violence and bringing normal life to a halt in order to get ST status. Without calling the demand improper, he said: “The Gurjjars have actually ruled many empires in historical times and have protected the country from invasions from across the borders.”

While the RSS never had love lost for Nehru, Sudershan gave this too a twist by accusing the former prime minister of ensuring that Nepal and Tibet were kept out of the Indian Republic, though they wanted to join it. According to him, Nehru worried that the world would say India had become an expansionist immediately after gaining Independence.

Turning his ire on human rights activists who moved the Supreme Court against the Salwa Judum movement in Chhattisgarh, Sudershan said: “They are not manavadhikar (human rights) activists, they are danavadhikar (demon rights) activists. They want the movement to be stopped because their men (Maoists), who are like demons, are dying,” he said.