Opinion View from the Right: Getting RSS wrong
The RSS has come a long way since it was formed 90 years ago, but perhaps its “sceptic critics” are still bound by their old conceptions.
An editorial in Panchajanya attacks those who don’t understand the Sangh Parivar and define it through their own prism. Contending that such people might become “irrelevant”, it says that “society is watching” them. “Questions are being raised about those who are quiet about the killers of Prashant Pujari but repeatedly mention Akhlaq,” it notes. The 90 “intellectuals” from West Bengal who loudly raised the Dadri issue overlooked the “killing of five Schedule Caste persons by… Muslims in their own state”. People don’t want to accept the “secular” contention, as the only place left for this is “the leftist garbage”, it says. “The Dusshera address of the sarsanghchalak is inspiring for those who want to see the national perspective of this sangathan”, but has a “different meaning for those who search for a political dimension in the sangh’s work”. The editorial notes that the address has signals for national unity and doesn’t get into political wrangling. It’s time for introspection for those who “ignore the social expanse” of the RSS and “view it from the prism of politics”. The RSS has come a long way since it was formed 90 years ago, but perhaps its “sceptic critics” are still bound by their old conceptions.
Dadri Truths
An article in the Organiser offers “10 facts on [the] Dadri lynching that [the] mainstream media twisted”. It says there are three media versions of the triggering factor. Some reports say Mohammed Akhlaq had a problem with Rahul Yadav and that he stole Yadav’s calf. Some say Akhlaq was suspected of carrying beef in his bag, another report states that locals saw blood flowing out of Akhlaq’s house. The real reason remains to be found, the article says, and asks, who “told the media that Akhlaq consumed beef and therefore was lynched? Why would Akhlaq jeopardise his life for a cow?” It notes that the fact was “underplayed” that the “neighbouring Hindu family went to rescue Akhlaq’s family”. It points out that “none of the politicians/ civic society members” questioned the UP government. It “almost sounds conspiratorial that everyone has trained their guns against the Modi government when it has nothing to do with it”. The article blames the media as “it went to the extent of stating things that were far-fetched, without a grain of truth”. It was claimed that “Bharat’s UN seat will be under threat… Akhlaq had a Pakistani connection”.
Balochistan And PoK
AN article in the Organiser, notes the deteriorating condition in Balochistan, as it applauds the “brilliant Bharateeya strategy focused on exposing the brutal and inhuman record of Pakistan in treating its disgruntled ethnic communities”. It notes that “there is enough material evidence to prove Pakistan’s notorious role in meting out inhuman atrocities to the residents of the Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan), which was forced to join Pakistan through perfidy and subterfuge, and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK)”. The article says that while “Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was stridently talking about the human rights violation in the Kashmir Valley at the United Nations in late September, the Bharateeya migrants settled in Pakistan held a noisy demonstration outside the UN headquarters demanding ‘azadi’ (freedom) from the oppressive Pakistani rule”.
The Mohajirs, who were at the forefront of the creation of Pakistan, now want to be the architects of their own destiny. A statement by the US wing of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement said, “While Nawaz Sharif was addressing the UN General Assembly raising the Kashmir issue and atrocities of the Bharateeya state in Kashmir, the MQM USA chapter was protesting against state terrorism on 50-million Mohajirs in Pakistan”.
Compiled by Ashutosh Bhardwaj
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