Opinion View From The Right: RSS Meet
The three-day meet was attended by “1,058 representatives, including state-level office-bearers of the RSS, national office-bearers of RSS-inspired organisations”.
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The cover story in the Organiser is about the RSS’s Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), recently held at Nagaur in Rajasthan. The three-day meet was attended by “1,058 representatives, including state-level office-bearers of the RSS, national office-bearers of RSS-inspired organisations”. It quotes Sahsarkaryavah Krishna Gopal who talked “about the steady growth of RSS” as the number of “Shakhas and Sthans have increased by 10,413 and 5,181 respectively from 2012 to 2015”.
“In a phenomenal growth in 2016, an increase of 5,524 in the number of Shakhas has been registered in a single year,” the article says, adding that “65.6 per cent of the total Shakhas are having students as swayamsevaks”. Underlining the popularity of the RSS among the youth, it notes that persons “below 40 years constitute 91 per cent of the total number of swayamsevaks who regularly attend shakhas”. It also says, “Out of 840 districts (in Sangh parlance) in Bharat, the RSS has reached 820…”
The ABPS also “took serious note of prevailing national issues pertaining to women’s temple entry, menace of terror, growing communal frenzy in the country and anti-national activities on the university campuses”. The article adds, “Some vested interests have raised an unsavoury controversy over women’s entry to temples,” and notes that “men and women are permitted entry into the temples without any discrimination”.
Kerala Attacks
An article in the Organiser highlights the “recent spate of attacks on Hindu activists and RSS-BJP workers” in Kerala and Karnataka and says that it’s “the brainchild of a grand design”. The attacks amount to “an ideological war against the idea of the nation” and “a bloody war against nationalists to wipe them out…” It lists the killings of Hindu activists, such as Mysore resident K. Raju, who was “said to have been working towards constructing [a] Ganesh temple in the area”.
In Kerala, the article notes, “the assailant changed, from jihadists to communists, but the victim still remains unchanged, Hindu”. Contending that the “Communist Party seems to be spreading its killer designs from Northern Malabar (Kannur) to South”, it says that “three RSS workers were seriously injured” in an attack by “CPM killer squads”. The article says that the CPM is afraid of the rise of the BJP in the state and is facing the “erosion of… strength”. The attacks “were manoeuvred by the spawns of the red-jihadist ideology which are hands in glove in the war against the nation and patriotic elements in the country…” It also slams the “deafening silence of [the] media over the increasing atrocities against Hindus and pro-Hindu organisations” and says that “mediapersons and intellectuals, who conveniently raise the ‘bogey of intolerance’, now seem to be blissfully unaware of what is happening…”
Farm Relief
An article in Panchajanya comments on the National Agriculture Market (NAM) and calls it a major step in farmers’ welfare from the Narendra Modi government. It notes that wide disparity among prices of various agricultural products causes farmer distress. On many occasions, farmers are unable to even receive the cost price of the product as they are forced to sell their produce at throwaway prices. To ensure that a farmer is able to access the entire national market from his doorstep, the “Central government wants to implement NAM as soon as possible”. The NAM envisages a national market in which a potato grower in Jalandhar is able to directly sell his crop to a trader in Mumbai.
“Though this scheme seems a far-fetched dream… it can be realised,” says the article, citing the successful integrated market system of Karnataka. The Centre wants to implement this scheme in three phases by creating an e-platform of 585 online markets by 2017-18. So far, 150 of the 100 markets in Karnataka have already been integrated. The article argues that the NAM can help the government achieve its target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022.
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