Pinarayi Vijayan's speech in Mangalore may be extended by an article which was published in Countercurrents.org earlier:
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national- rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/ Anti-National RSS: Documentary Evidences From RSS Archives <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/> in Communal Harmony <http://www.countercurrents.org/category/communal-harmony/> — by Shamsul Islam <http://www.countercurrents.org/author/shamsul-islam/> — January 17, 2017 [image: rss1] Friends from India and abroad who are concerned about the increasing threats to the democratic-secular Indian polity from the Hindutva organizations have been feeling the need for a concise document on the anti-national game-plan of the RSS and other like-minded offshoots. The need of such a document is rightly felt for countering the Hindutva propaganda at all levels. The following document is an attempt to accomplish this objective. It is hoped that equipped with this document all those who love India as a democratic-secular nation and want to save our beloved country from the Hindutva onslaught would be able to challenge the fountain-head of the Hindutva politics; RSS. This document is based solely on the documents drawn from the RSS archives. *AGAINST SECULAR INDIA* The editorial (titled ‘Glorious Hindu Nation’) in the maiden issue of the English organ of RSS dated July 3, 1947 strongly rejected any talk of an Indian nation where Hindus and Muslims would stay as equal partners. It branded the concept of a composite Indian nation as a British conspiracy and went on to decry Mr. Hume (one of the founders of the Indian National Congress) for advancing the theory that *“Muslims were equal partners in this land of the Hindus—Hindusthan—and propagated the theory that Hindus and Muslims combined could only make a nation. Unfortunately, neither the Hindu masses nor the leaders could see the trap and they began to honestly believe that India’s salvation lay in Hindu-Muslim unity, for which they strove with all their might. Things proceeded according to British plan and the Muslims began to claim equal partnership in the country.”[i] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn1>* Importantly, *Organizer* in an editorial (titled ‘Whither’) on the very eve of Independence, dated 14 August, 1947, while rejecting the whole concept of a composite nation wrote: *“Let us no longer allow ourselves to be influenced by false notions of nationhood. Much of the mental confusion and the present and future troubles can be removed by the ready recognition of the simple fact that in Hindusthan only the Hindus form the nation and the national structure must be built on that safe and sound foundation…The nation itself must be built up of Hindus, on Hindu traditions, culture, ideas and aspirations.”[ii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn2>* *DENIGRATING THE NATIONAL FLAG* The RSS English organ *Organizer* in its editorial (titled ‘The Nation’s Flag’), dated July 17, 1947, while reacting to the news that the committee of the Constituent Assembly of India on national Flag had decided in favour of Tricolour as the National Flag since it was acceptable to all parties and communities wrote: *“We do not at all agree that the Flag ‘should be acceptable to all parties and communities in India’. This is sheer nonsense. The Flag represents the nation and there is only one nation in Hindusthan, the Hindu Nation, with an unbroken history extending over 5,000 years. That is the nation and the flag must symbolize that nation and that nation alone. We can not possibly choose a flag with a view to satisfy the desires and wishes of all the communities. That is to complicate matters and is unwarranted and entirely unnecessary…We cannot order the choice of a flag as we order a tailor to make a shirt or coat for us…* *“If the Hindus in Hindusthan had a common civilization, culture, customs and manners, a common language and common traditions, they had also a flag, the oldest and the noblest in the world, just as they and their civilization are the oldest in the world. That is the historical perspective through which the question of our National Flag should be approached and not in the slipshod manner in which it is being done at present. It is true that temporary misfortunes following foreign invasions and all the horrors that attended them threw the National Flag of Hindus into the shade. But all knew that it is bound to rise again one day to its pristine glory and greatness. There is something immensely endearing to the nation’s heart and soul in this unique colour of the Flag which is the colour peculiar to the morn [morning] when life-giving sun makes his slow but majestic appearance in the east. In the same way, our forefathers have handed down this glorious flag of ours as the life-giving force to the world. It is only the ignorant and the malicious who can not find or appreciate this peculiar charm, nobility and grandeur in the Flag—a charm, nobility and grandeur as glorious as that of the sun itself. This Flag and this alone can be the true national Flag of Hindusthan. That and that alone will be the only one acceptable to the nation. There is growing evidence of this insistent demand on the part of the public and the Constituent Assembly would be well advised to carry out their wishes.”[iii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn3>* Shockingly, RSS organ Organizer on the eve of Independence of India carried a long piece, ‘Mystery behind the *Bhagwa Dhawaj*’, which while demanding hoisting of saffron flag at the ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi openly denigrated the choice of the Tricolour as the National Flag. *“The people who have come to power by the kick of fate may give in our hands the Tricolour but it never [sic] be respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in itself an evil, and a flag having three colours will certainly produce a very bad psychological effect and is injurious to a country.”[iv] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn4>* It was in July 1947 that the Constituent Assembly of Independent India deliberated on the issue of the National Flag of the country and adopted the Tricolour as the national Flag. However, RSS under the leadership of M. S. Golwalkar refused to accept as one. While addressing a *Gurupurnima* gathering in Nagpur on July 14, 1946, stated that it was the saffron flag which in totality represented their great culture. It was the embodiment of God: *“We firmly believe that in the end the whole nation will bow before this saffron flag.”[v] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn5>* Even after independence when the Tricolour became the National Flag, it was the RSS which refused to accept it as the National Flag. Golwalkar opposed this choice of the national Flag in an essay entitled ‘Drifting and Drifting’ (reproduced from in the book *Bunch of Thoughts,* a collection of Golwalkar’s writings in English published by the RSS in 1966). Citing examples of ‘Drifting’ from the Hindutva goals by the Founding Fathers, Golwalkar wrote: *“…Our leaders have set up a new flag for our country. Why did they do so? It is just a case of drifting and imitating. How did this flag come into being? During the French Revolution, the French put up three stripes on their flag to express the triple ideas of ‘equality’, ‘fraternity’ and ‘liberty’. The American Revolution inspired by similar principles took it up with some changes. Three stripes therefore held a sort of fascination for our freedom fighters also. So, it was taken up by the Congress. Then it was interpreted as depicting the unity of the various communities-the saffron colour standing for the Hindu, the green for the Muslim and the white for all the other communities. Out of the non-Hindu communities the Muslim was specially named because in the minds of most of those eminent leaders the Muslim was dominant and without naming him they did not think that our nationality could be complete! When some persons pointed out that this smacked of a communal approach, a fresh, explanation was brought forward that he ‘saffron’ stood for sacrifice, the ‘white’ for purity and the ‘green’ for peace and so on. All these interpretations were discussed in the Congress Committees during those days. Who can say that this is a pure and healthy national outlook? It was just a politician’s patchwork, just political expediency. It was not inspired by any national vision or truth based on our national history and heritage. The same flag has been taken up today as our State Flag with only a glorious past. Then, had we no flag of our own? Had we no national emblem at all these thousands of years? Undoubtedly, we had. Then, why this void, this utter vacuum in our minds?”[vi] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn6>* *AGAINST NAMING THE COUNTRY AS INDIA* When the Constituent Assembly decided to name the country as India, it was RSS which vehemently demanded it to be named as *‘Hindusthan’*, the land of and for Hindus. In an editorial (titled *‘Hindusthan’*) in its English organ, *Organizer* dated July 31, 1947, it demanded that whether it was the issue of naming it or finalizing the character of its polity, the exclusive Hindu character must be guaranteed. It read: *“Great responsibility rests on the shoulders of the men now sitting and discussing details about the constitutional structure of Free Hindusthan. Posterity will judge them by their actions. Let them not betray the nation and her cherished ideals and aspirations. Let their guide be the innermost feelings and aspirations of the vast majority of the people of this country. Unquestionably, they want their Mother Country to be named and known as Hindusthan. [Italics as in the original] the word Hindusthan spontaneously brings to mind happy association of oneness of people of this land, their common culture, common history, common law and the common glorious ancestors, while the word India denotes the anti-thesis of these. It has nothing to inspire the nation. On the other hand, there is a whole chain of events that makes us feel ashamed and our souls revolt. This alone is enough justification to cast away the name India and adopt the natural one, Hindusthan. There can be no compromise on this. Those who are bent upon compromise, sacrificing fundamental principles are not only shirking their responsibility to the nation but they are thereby doing the greatest harm to it.” The editorial concluded with the following demands: “Emphatically; the National Flag should be the traditional Hindu flag, the National Language, Hindi, and this dear homeland of ours, Hindusthan.”[vii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn7>* *MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS & COMMUNISTS AS INTERNAL THREATS* The ‘Holy’ book for the RSS cadres *Bunch of Thoughts*, has a long chapter titled as ‘Internal Threats’ in which Muslims and Christians are described as threat number 1 and 2 respectively. Communists are played at number 3. This chapter opens with the following statement: *“It has been the tragic lesson of the history of many a country in the world that the hostile elements within the country pose a far greater menace to national security then aggressors from outside.”[viii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn8>* While treating Muslims as hostile element number 1 he goes on to elaborate, *“Even to this day there are so many who say, ‘now there is no Muslim problem at all. All those riotous elements who supported Pakistan have gone away once for all. The remaining Muslims are devoted to our country. After all, they have no other place to go and they are **bound to remain loyal’….It would be suicidal to delude ourselves into believing that they have turned patriots overnight after the creation of Pakistan. On the contrary, the Muslim menace has increased a hundredfold by the creation of Pakistan which has become a springboard for all their future aggressive designs on our country.”[ix] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn9>* He goes on to spit venom against common Muslims in the following words: *“…within the country there are so many Muslim pockets, i.e., so many **‘miniature Pakistans’… The conclusion is that, in practically every **place, there are Muslims who are in constant touch with Pakistan **over the transmitter…”[x] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn10>* While deliberating on the ‘*Internal Threat*’ number 2, the Christians, he says, *“such is the role of Christian gentlemen residing in our land today, out **to demolish not only the religious and social fabric of our life but also **to establish political domination in various pockets and if possible all **over the land.”[xi] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn11>* *RSS DEMANDED TRANSFER OF DELHI MUSLIMS TO PAKISTAN* *Organizer* dated September 25, 1947, demanded that all Muslims residing in Delhi should be repatriated to Pakistan. It wrote: *“Delhi for long formed part of the Punjab and since the exchange of population has been undertaken between West Punjab [Pakistan] and East Punjab [India], the right and only course left for the Government is to evacuate the Muslims of Delhi to west Punjab. It is pointed out that any other course would lead to grave trouble again, for the public mind, still remains disturbed due to fear that Muslims would create further trouble whenever they get an opportunity.”[xii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn12>* Golwalkar’s hatred for Muslims was inexhaustible and never-ending. So far as his hatred for Muslims was concerned there was no difference in his views contained in *We or Our Nationhood Defined *in 1939, or his hatred for Muslims in 1960. In fact, this hatred got wilder. While addressing the leading RSS cadres of south India in Bangalore on November 30, 1960, he declared: *“Right from Delhi to Rampur, Muslims are busy hatching a dangerous plot, piling up arms and mobilizing their men, and probably biding their time to strike from within.”[xiii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn13>* Shockingly, no proofs were given and law and order machinery was not informed about such a critical situation but this Guru of Hate continued spitting venom against patriotic Indian Muslims. His only purposed seemed to be to create mob-hysteria against Muslims. More shocking was that Indian State took no action against Golwalkar for creating enmity between 2 major religious communities of India. For Golwalkar and RSS, Communists are described as *‘Internal Threat’* number 3 as the latter rise in defence of a democratic-secular Indian polity and challenge the Hindutva forces which are working overtime to undo an all-inclusive India.[xiv] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn14> *RSS DECRIED THE DEMOCRATIC-SECULAR CONSTITUTION OF INDIA* The second sarsanghchalak of the RSS, MS Golwalkar led the organization during 1940-1973. What RSS thought bout the Indian Constitution would be clear from the following words of his reproduced from *Bunch of Thoughts*: *“Our Constitution too is just a cumbersome and heterogeneous piecing together of various articles from various Constitutions of Western countries. It has absolutely nothing, which can be called our own. Is there a single word of reference in its guiding principles as to what our national mission is and what our keynote in life is? No! Some lame principles form the United Nations Charter or from the Charter of the now defunct League of Nations and some features form the American and British Constitutions have been just brought together in a mere hotchpotch.”* In fact, RSS wanted this Constitution to be replaced by *Manusmriti* or Codes of Manu. When the Constituent Assembly of India had finalized the Constitution of India RSS was not happy. *Organizer* in an editorial (‘The Constitution’) on November 30, 1949, complained: *“The worst about the new constitution of Bharat is that there is nothing Bhartiya about it. The drafters of the Constitution have incorporated in it elements of British, American, Canadian, Swiss and sundry other constitutions. But there is no trace of ancient Bhartiya constitutional laws, institutions, nomenclature and phraseology in it…But in our constitution, there is no mention of the unique constitutional development in ancient Bharat. Manu’s Laws were written long before Lycurgus of Sparta or Solon of Persia. To this day his laws as enunciated in the **Manusmriti** excite the admiration of the world and elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our constitutional pundits that means nothing.”[xv] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn15>* *RSS IS COMMITTED FOR CONVERTING DEMOCRATIC-SECULAR INDIAN INTO A HINDU RASHTRA* *Against Secularism* The RSS is committed to establish a Hindu Rashtra in opposition to a Secular India will be clear by the perusal of the oath (*pratigya*) which every member must take before admission into the RSS and prayer ( *pararthana*) which is recited in its meetings. *Oath:* *“Before the all-powerful God and my ancestors, I most solemnly take this oath, that I become a member of the RSS in order to achieve all round greatness of Bharatvarsha by fostering the growth of my sacred Hindu religion, Hindu society, and Hindu culture. I shall perform the work of the Sangh honestly, selflessly with my heart and soul, and I shall adhere to this goal all my life. Bharat Mata Ki Jai.”[xvi] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn16>* Thus they are not faithful to the Indian Nation as it exists as a legal entity but want to subvert it into a theocratic state like Muslim League which created Pakistan in the name of Islam. *Prayer:* *Affectionate Motherland, I eternally bow to you/O Land of Hindus, you have reared me in comfort/O Sacred Land, the Great Creator of Good, may this body of mine be dedicated to you/I again and again bow before You/O God almighty, we the integral part of the Hindu Rashtra salute you in reverence/For Your cause have we girded up our loins/Give us Your Blessings for its accomplishment…”[xvii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn17>* AGAINST DEMOCRACY What kind of political system the RSS wants to usher in and run will be clear from the following words of MS Golwalkar’s speech which he delivered before the 1350 top level cadres of the RSS at Resham Bagh, the RSS headquarters at Nagpur in 1940: *“RSS inspired by one flag, one leader and one ideology is lighting the flame of Hindutva in each and every corner of this great land.”[xviii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn18>* AGAINST FEDERALISM The RSS is also dead against federal structure of the constitution, again a ‘Basic’ feature of the India polity. This is clear from the following communication of Golwalkar which he sent to the first session of the National Integration Council in 1961. It read: *“Today’s federal form of government not only gives birth but also nourishes the feelings of separatism, in a way refuses to recognize the fact of one nation and destroys it. It must be completely uprooted, constitution purified and unitary form of government be established.”[xix] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn19>* Even in 1954 Golwalkar while presiding over one anti-federalism conference at Bombay demanded: *“India should have Central Rule and from administrative point of view states should be administered territories.”[xx] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn20>* These have not been some stray ideas of the RSS ideologue on Indian Federalism. The ‘Holy’ for the RSS cadres, *Bunch of Thoughts*, has an exclusive chapter titled, *‘Wanted a unitary state.’* While presenting his remedy to the federal set-up of India Golwalkar wrote: *“The most important and effective step will be to bury deep for good all talk of a federal structure of our country’s Constitution, to sweep away the existence of all ‘autonomous’ or semi-autonomous ‘states’ within the one state viz., Bharat and proclaim ‘One Country, One State, One Legislature, One Executive’ with no trace of fragmentational, regional, sectarian, linguistic or other types of pride being given a scope for playing havoc with our integrated harmony. Let the Constitution be re-examined and re-drafted, so as to establish this Unitary form of Government and thus effectively disprove the mischievous propaganda indulged in by the British and so unwittingly imbibed by the present leaders, about our being just a juxtaposition of so many distinct ‘ethnic groups’ or ‘nationalities’ happening to live side by side and grouped together by the accident of geographical contiguity and one uniform supreme foreign domination.”[xxi] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn21>* *RSS & CONSPIRACIES ARE TWO SISDES OF THE SAME COIN* The central publication house of the RSS, Suruchi Prakashan, Delhi, published a book in 1997, titled *Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par *(ON THE ROAD TO GREAT GLORY) penned by Sadanand Damodar Sapre, a senior RSS functionary. This book contained details of more than 40 organizations created by the RSS for different tasks but more importantly it described how many of these organizations are run in a clandestine manner for hidden agendas. This publication showed that the whole network ran like a well-organized mafia through its subsidiaries and satellites. There has always been a conscious attempt to create confusion about its different fronts which provide RSS with the opportunity to dissociate with any of these as per its convenience. For instance, it used Hindu Jagaran Manch (HJM) for attacking Christians in late 1990s and when public opinion, media and Parliament seemed to turn against it, RSS denied any relation with HJM. However, according to this publication Hindu Jagaran Manch was created by the RSS as admitted in the above-mentioned publication. The book confesses: *“From the point of view of Hindu awakening this kind of forums [like Hindu Jagran Manch] at present are active in 17 states with different names like ‘Hindu Manch’ in Delhi, ‘Hindu Munani’ in Tamilnadu, ‘Hinduekjut’ in Maharashtra. These are forums, not associations or organizations, that’s why it is not required to have membership, registration and elections.”[xxii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn22>* How RSS indulges in conspiracies can be known by the following disclosure in *Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par *about a case in Delhi immediately after Partition: *“Swayamsevaks had posed to have adopted Musalman religion in order to gain the confidence of Delhi Muslim League for knowing their conspiracies.”[xxiii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn23>* What these *swayamsevaks*, impersonating as Muslims, on the eve of Independence were doing was made clear by none other than Dr. Rajendra Prasad who later became first President of the Indian Republic. In a letter to the first Home Minister of India, Sardar Patel, on 14 March 1948, Prasad wrote: *“I am told that RSS people have a plan of creating trouble. They have got a number of men dressed as Muslims and looking like Muslims who are to create trouble with the Hindus by attacking them and thus inciting the Hindus. Similarly, there will be some Hindus among them who will attack Muslims and thus incite Muslims. The result of this kind of trouble amongst the Hindus and Muslims will be to create a conflagration.”[xxiv] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_edn24>* IF any RSS supporter feel that the above RSS documents reproduced are fake, author invites them to file criminal defamation case. *Shamsul Islam* is a retired Professor of University of Delhi.Email: *[email protected] <[email protected]>* For some of S. Islam’s writings in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Telugu, Punjabi, Urdu & Gujarati see the following link: http://du-in.academia.edu/ShamsulIslam Facebook: shams shamsul Twitter: @shamsforjustice <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref1> REFERENCES: [i] *Organizer*, July 3, 1947. [ii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref2> *Organizer*, August 14, 1947. [iii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref3> *Organizer*, July 17, 1947. [iv] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref4> *Organizer*, August 14, 1947. [v] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref5> MS Golwalkar, *Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan* (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., volume I, p. 98. [vi] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref6> MS Golwalkar, *Bunch of Thoughts*, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996 [first edition 1966], pp. 237-238. [vii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref7> *Organizer*, July 31, 1947. [viii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref8> MS Golwalkar, *Bunch of Thoughts*, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 177. [ix] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref9> MS Golwalkar, *Bunch of Thoughts*, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, pp. 177-78. [x] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref10> MS Golwalkar, *Bunch of Thoughts*, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 185. [xi] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref11> MS Golwalkar, *Bunch of Thoughts*, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 193. [xii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref12> *Organizer*, September 25, 1947. [xiii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref13> M. S. Golwalkar, ‘From Delhi to Rampur Muslims are Conspiring’ *Organizer, * December 12, 1960. [xiv] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref14> MS Golwalkar, *Bunch of Thoughts*, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, p. 195. [xv] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref15> *Organizer, November 30, 1947.* [xvi] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref16> Shakha Darshikha, Gyan Ganga, Jaipur, 1997, p. 66. [xvii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref17> Shakha Darshikha, Gyan Ganga, Jaipur, 1997, p. 2 [xviii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref18> MS Golwalkar, *Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan* (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., Volume I, p. 11. [xix] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref19> MS Golwalkar, *Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan* (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., Volume 3, p. 128. [xx] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref20> MS Golwalkar, *Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan* (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., Volume 3, p. 70. [xxi] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref21> MS Golwalkar, *Bunch of Thoughts*, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996 [first edition 1966], p. 227. [xxii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref22> Sadanand Damodar Sapre*, Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par, *Suruchi Prakashan, Delhi, 1997, p. 64. [xxiii] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref23> Sadanand Damodar Sapre*, Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par, *Suruchi Prakashan, Delhi, 1997, p. 86. [xxiv] <http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/17/anti-national-rss-documentary-evidences-from-rss-archives/#_ednref24> Dr. Rajendra Prasad to Sardar Patel (March 14, 1948) cited in Neerja Singh (ed.), *Nehru**-Patel: Agreement Within Difference—Select Documents & Correspondences 1933-1950*, NBT, Delhi, p. 43. On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 3:54 AM, KP Sasi <[email protected]> wrote: > Though I am a non-vegetarian, I am not particularly fond of head of the > non-veg dishes. I have noticed that many of my Bengali friends love to eat > the head of fish. For many people in Kerala also fish head is a delicacy. > In Bangalore and many other cities and towns, I have noticed that the head > of mutton is sold separately and the price is fixed as per certain economic > logic. But I cannot understand the logic of RSS for offering one crore > bounty for Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’ s head. `Cut off > Vijayan’s head and bring it to me’, said BJP/RSS leader Dr. Kundan > Chandrawat in Ujjain yesterday. `I have property worth more than one crore > and I will transfer my assets in your name’. The taste of RSS is certainly > very expensive. Then there is also an offer of three lakh human skulls to > Bharat Mata, of course followed by the threat of repeating Gujarat model of > violence in Kerala. Animals kill to eat. These guys want to kill for power. > But one thing is clear, after the economic terrorism of demonitisation > under Modi’s rule, the cost of human head has increased quiet a bit. I hope > secular, democratic and peace loving citizens in this country will react on > open and shameless speech of the Sanghi leader. And why is this terrorist > not arrested yet? > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:45 AM, KP Sasi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This needs to be widely discussed: >> >> http://beta.bodhicommons.org/article/rally-for-communal-harm >> ony-mangalore-pinarayi-vijayan >> >> RSS has the Tradition of Having Betrayed Our Freedom Struggle >> Pinarayi Vijayan <http://beta.bodhicommons.org/filter/all/all/656> February >> 26, 2017 >> ------------------------------ >> >> Image Courtesy: Times of India >> ------------------------------ >> >> Kerala Chief minister *Pinarayi Vijayan* addressing the rally for >> communal harmony at Mangalore. >> >> Translated from Malayalam by *Samuel Philip Mathew* and *Subin Dennis*. >> >> At the outset let me express my happiness at being able to participate in >> such a rally, particularly a rally for communal harmony. Today, in our >> country, preserving communal harmony is of utmost importance. Several >> efforts are on across the country to create fissures in our communal >> harmony. What is especially striking is the fact that it is the RSS which >> is leading the Government of our country that is behind these efforts. The >> RSS has always been open about this – since its inception, the RSS has >> propagated discord among religions and sought to spread communal hatred. >> >> RSS is not an organisation that is in the mainstream of our society. >> Unfortunately, it is this organisation that has the right to decide the >> policies of our country. The leadership of our Government, including the >> Indian Prime Minister functions according to the dictates of the RSS. RSS >> was formed in 1925, when the Indian freedom struggle was intensifying. RSS >> has been functioning for 22 years when the Indian freedom struggle was at >> its peak. But, we need to recall that the RSS played no role in the Indian >> freedom struggle. While they played no role in the freedom struggle, they >> did play their own role during that era. Almost all organisations formed >> during that period participated in the freedom struggle and adopted the >> stance that the British should leave the country. There were differing >> opinions among those who fought for the cause, but all of them were united >> in the stand that India should be independent and that the British should >> leave our country. This is where the RSS was different. The RSS at that >> time not only kept away from the freedom struggle, they even refused to >> demand that the British should leave India. On the contrary, they adopted a >> stand in favour of the British staying on in India. Savarkar himself had >> met the Viceroy and informed him that the Sangh Parivar was not part of the >> freedom struggle and that their interests were the same as that of the >> British. RSS has the tradition of having betrayed our freedom struggle. >> >> RSS was never ready to see the country as one and to unite the people. >> Right from the beginning they have attempted to divide the people on >> communal lines. Thus, the RSS went on to lead communal riots in our >> country. We need to remember that RSS is an organisation that is against >> the unity of our country and our people. They have always tried to divide >> our people. Naturally a pertinent question comes up here. Why was Mahatma >> Gandhi killed? No one will say that Mahatma Gandhi tried to attack anyone >> from the RSS. However, a long conspiracy was hatched under the leadership >> of the Sangh Parivar to kill him. We need to recognise the fact that just >> as the weapon in Godse’s hands was used to kill Gandhiji, Godse was merely >> an instrument in the hands of the RSS. We also need to remember that when >> Gandhiji was killed, the RSS distributed sweets in the places where they >> were present. >> >> Public anger rose up against the RSS which killed Gandhiji, and the RSS >> was banned. At that stage, the RSS made efforts to appease some of the >> rulers at the centre in a big way in order to get the ban withdrawn. Even >> after the ban was withdrawn, the RSS has continued on the same path. We >> need to think what kind of ideology the RSS follows. Five years after the >> RSS was formed, BS Moonje, one of their founding leaders, went to meet a >> few international leaders of that time. He went to meet the role models of >> the Sangh Parivar. One of them was Mussolini. RSS fully adopted the fascist >> organisational structure of Mussolini’s organisation. There were these >> training centres of Mussolini’s fascist organisation where they imparted >> training to their cadre. Moonje was very much excited when he saw them. >> Moonje discussed with Mussolini the details of that training and how it >> could be replicated in India. It is that organisational structure which the >> RSS adopted. It is Mussolini’s fascist organisational form which the RSS >> follows even today. >> >> RSS received its ideology from the Nazism of Hitler’s Germany. There was >> no other organisation in the world that was as overjoyed as the RSS at >> Hitler’s annihilation of the minorities. The nations and organisations of >> the world had condemned what Hitler had did. But the RSS welcomed it and >> praised it. >> *All the distinguished persons of our country are supposed to yield to >> the wishes of the RSS! They are supposed to surrender to the RSS! They >> should not think independently, they should not express their own ideas! If >> they do that, if they express ideas different from that of the RSS, they >> will not be allowed to live in this country, says the RSS. The secular >> forces of this country has one thing to say, unitedly, to the RSS – this >> country belongs to all of us. RSS has no special rights here. Everyone who >> resides here has the right to live here, to express their opinions freely >> and to write what they want to.* >> >> RSS had publicly said during that time that Germany is the model India >> should follow in solving our domestic issues. Hitler annihilated the >> minorities in Germany. Remember the massacre of the Jews by Hitler. The RSS >> was all excited about such barbaric acts. The godfathers of the RSS, >> including Golwalkar, have written in praise of such policies of Hitler. >> Those were the kind of policies which the RSS adopted as their own. The RSS >> adopted those policies fully in India. In other words, the policies of the >> RSS and the policies of Hitler are the same. RSS has accepted Hitler’s >> Nazism as its own ideology. You could see that the language of the RSS is >> similar to that of Hitler. Hitler wrote on how to deal with the minorities. >> The RSS adopted the same policy here, in the same form. For Hitler, there >> was only one group which was a minority there – the Jews. Hitler saw the >> Jews and the Communists, whom he referred to as Bolsheviks, as the domestic >> enemies of the country. The same stand and the same policy were written >> down in their books by the RSS as their own policy. And they have gone on >> to implement it. Here they said that the major minorities in India – the >> Muslims and the Christians – are the domestic enemies of the country. Along >> with them, following up on Hitler, they depict the Communists also as the >> country’s domestic enemies. Thus, just as minorities and the Communists >> became domestic enemies for Hitler in Germany, the Muslims, Christians and >> Communists became the domestic enemies for the RSS in India. >> >> This is the policy which the RSS implemented all over the country. It can >> be seen that it was the RSS which led the communal riots which occurred in >> India. Communal riots in which thousands of people were killed have >> happened in our country. The RSS had led all those riots. They have special >> kinds of training for that. How to organise a riot? How to create communal >> tension? Once the communal tension grows into a riot, what kind of false >> propaganda should be used to provoke and excite the common people? The RSS >> has specific training facilities for all of these. This uniformity can be >> seen in all the communal riots which the RSS led. It can be seen that the >> particular methods that they learned through their systematic training have >> been widely used in those riots. >> >> RSS is against secularism. That India should not be a secular country has >> been their stand from the very beginning. On 17 July 1947, ‘Organiser’, the >> RSS mouthpiece, wrote an editorial titled “National Flag”. Our national >> flag was decided upon after extensive discussions. However, the RSS was >> absolutely against it. They unleashed a scathing attack against the flag >> saying that it did not have any elements of our country and that it was not >> suitable to our country. The name India was also objected to by the RSS. On >> 31 July 1947, the same ‘Organiser’ wrote that the name of the country >> should be Hindusthan [which is different from Hindustan] and not India. All >> these were as a result of their policy. Their understanding from the very >> beginning has been that India should be a country with a religion-based >> state. They are opposed to the idea of a secular country. That is why >> inside the Parliament, one of our rulers, the Home Minister himself, said >> that the inclusion of secularism in our constitution was the reason for all >> our troubles. We should realise that this is what the RSS is. >> >> It is this RSS which today has got the power to decide the destiny of the >> country. They are proceeding with utter intolerance. Several hours would be >> needed to talk about them. Such cruelties have been imposed on our country >> under their leadership. RSS has become the manifestation of intolerance. >> That intolerance has spread to our country’s rulers as well. Just as they >> killed Mahatma Gandhi, the Sangh Parivar has killed several people who are >> important for the country, and who are dear to the people. M M Kalburgi’s >> killing here is still in our minds. The secular mind of our nation was very >> much pained at that murder. Kalburgi was a progressive writer. Why was he >> killed? Not just Kalburgi, Govind Pansare – he was somebody who exposed the >> RSS well. He exposed their false campaigns on the basis of historical >> facts. Intolerance, Govind Pansare was killed because of that. Narendra >> Dabholkar fought strongly against superstitions and evil customs. He was >> also murdered. All of these were done under the leadership of the Sangh >> Parivar. None of these three people who were killed had done anything >> wrong. As progressive writers they were constantly engaged in debates, for >> our country, for our people. It was the intolerance against that which led >> the RSS to kill them. >> >> There are so many people here who have been threatened by the RSS. Not >> just those who have been murdered, but also those who have been working for >> the benefit of our society, those who are well known within our country. >> You know of K S Bhagawan, you know about the threats against him by the >> Sangh Parivar. Similarly, Girish Karnad, the Jnanpith award winner, was >> also not spared by the Sangh Parivar. RSS has been following a policy which >> says that they would not tolerate anybody who is not ready to agree with >> the ideas of the RSS and to surrender to them. Huchangi Prasad, the young >> poet from Karnataka, a Dalit youth, his hand was the target of their >> knives. Blood was shed. He was threatened that his fingers would be cut off >> if he writes again. Journalist and writer Chetana Thirthahalli was >> threatened here for not surrendering to the dictates of the RSS. Ignoring >> the threats, she participated in a DYFI programme, and then she was >> threatened further. Extremely heinous threats, that acid would be poured >> over her, that she would be raped and so on were raised against her by the >> Sangh Parivar. The attacks against writer Perumal Murugan… Such was the >> state of affairs that he was forced to say that the writer in him has died. >> All of these happened in our country. The things that I mentioned earlier >> were events that happened continuously in Karnataka. >> *RSS had publicly said during that time that Germany is the model India >> should follow in solving our domestic issues. Hitler annihilated the >> minorities in Germany. Remember the massacre of the Jews by Hitler. The RSS >> was all excited about such barbaric acts. The godfathers of the RSS, >> including Golwalkar, have written in praise of such policies of Hitler.* >> >> The widely revered U R Ananthamurthy was on his deathbed. That was the >> moment RSS chose to spew its venom against him. They sent him a flight >> ticket to Pakistan! RSS is very keen to pack off many geniuses and >> distinguished persons to Pakistan. Apart from many prominent persons in our >> State, they would also like to send famous actors like Shah Rukh Khan and >> Aamir Khan to Pakistan. M T Vasudevan Nair, winner of the Jnanpith award >> and Padma Bhushan from Kerala, happened to talk about the difficulties >> faced by the people in the wake of the currency ban. The Sangh Parivar, the >> RSS, wanted to send him also to Pakistan immediately. They wanted to send >> Kamal, a famous film director from Kerala also to Pakistan. They want to >> send Nandita Das to Pakistan. What is this? All the distinguished persons >> of our country are supposed to yield to the wishes of the RSS! They are >> supposed to surrender to the RSS! They should not think independently, they >> should not express their own ideas! If they do that, if they express ideas >> different from that of the RSS, they will not be allowed to live in this >> country, says the RSS. The secular forces of this country has one thing to >> say, unitedly, to the RSS – this country belongs to all of us. RSS has no >> special rights here. Everyone who resides here has the right to live here, >> to express their opinions freely and to write what they want to. The >> secular forces must unitedly take a strong position against the intolerance >> of the RSS. >> >> RSS has tried to do away with the minorities. It even came down to the >> RSS attempting to decide what one should eat. This is what led to Akhlaq >> being beaten up and murdered, in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh. “You” are against >> “us” since you belong to a minority, according to the Sangh Parivar. An >> innocent man was killed because of that. Food was used only as an excuse to >> kill him. It was later proven that the meat taken from his house was >> mutton. Even as minorities were being targeted, in Una, Gujarat, this >> country and the world saw four Dalit boys being stripped naked, tied to a >> car and beaten up. Dalits are supposed to skin dead cows and clean others’ >> toilets; they are supposed to do only certain kinds of jobs. The methods of >> the same old chatur-varnya (four-varna) caste system was being used against >> Dalits by the RSS. What we witnessed in Mewat, Haryana was another version >> of this. A poor farmer and his wife were killed by the RSS. Two young girls >> of the family who had managed to escape were forced to come back as the >> criminals pointed a knife at the baby child of one of them. They threatened >> that the baby’s neck would be slashed if they didn’t come back. The girls >> were then gang raped. Everyone else in that family was beaten up brutally. >> This is what the RSS is doing in our country. Apart from the places I >> mentioned now, the states of Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab have all >> seen attacks on a big scale in the name of beef. >> >> People belonging to the Sangh Parivar killing other people belonging to >> the Sangh Parivar is what you are seeing here. You are all aware of the >> killings in the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts here, and I need not >> go into the details. Prathap Poojary was killed this last February 19th, >> early Sunday morning. Who was Prathap Poojary? An activist of the Hindu >> Jagarana Vedike, a leader of the organisation who called for a hartal >> today. A gang had robbed those who had come to perform Yakshagana at Kateel >> temple. And we come to know that Prathap was killed so that this >> information does not become public. Similarly, Vinayak Baliga, a BJP member >> – he was stopped while going to the temple on a bike and was killed. The >> prime accused is Naresh Shenoy, founder of the NaMo Brigade. This man had >> contested as a BJP candidate in the Lok Sabha elections. Nalin Kumar >> Kateel, the BJP MP, is also an accused in this case. In Udupi, Praveen >> Poojary was killed after it was alleged that he smuggled cattle. He was >> also a BJP worker. He was also killed by the Sangh Parivar. Thus, what you >> have to witness here is Sangh Parivar members killing their own fellow >> Sangh Parivar members. >> >> You all know about Kerala, about the reform movement led by Sree Narayana >> Guru and what happened in Kerala in continuation to it. Some comrades told >> me earlier about the Guru having come here and spoken here as well. The >> result of the continuation of the renaissance movement led by him was that >> Kerala developed into a strongly secular society. It is in such a place >> that the RSS set off to establish themselves. The strongest force in >> Kerala, the Communist movement, the CPI(M) in particular, is their primary >> enemy. They think that by destroying the Communist movement, they can >> establish the influence of communalism over Kerala’s society. That is how >> attacks by the RSS were initiated there. If you examine the history of >> Kerala, around 600 comrades have been martyred in the State. 205 of those >> comrades were killed by the RSS. They had not done anything wrong. They >> took a strong position against communalism as part of their strong stand in >> defence of secularism. The RSS is intolerant towards that. The RSS is >> trying to weaken the movement of the comrades who are ready to fight and >> sacrifice their lives to protect secularism by murdering them. This is what >> the RSS has been doing continuously in Kerala. >> >> Comrade Sreerama Reddy invited me several months back to participate in >> this Communal Harmony rally that you have organised. It became possible for >> me to come only now. When I decided to participate in this rally and the >> news became public, the intolerance of the Sangh Parivar came out in the >> open. Leaders of the RSS and the BJP said that they will not let me set >> foot here. Some even bragged that they will not let me set foot anywhere >> outside Kerala. I would like to make one thing clear regarding this. As >> someone who is serving as the Chief Minister of Kerala, I appreciate the >> Karnataka Government’s vigilance in dealing with this threat raised by the >> RSS. I thank the Karnataka Chief Minister and the Karnataka Government for >> this. The RSS can be dealt with only in this manner, by taking a strong >> stand. All of us should take this as a lesson. >> >> This is what I have to say to the RSS. Quite naturally, in my journeys >> after I became Chief Minister, I have the protection of the police force >> which has the responsibility to protect me. They have weapons to ensure >> that. It could be said, if you like, that I travel in the midst of the >> protection of their weapons. It is something that is a customary part of >> our governance system. >> >> But this is what I have to say to RSS and to those who challenged me. I, >> Pinarayi Vijayan, did not drop down from the heavens one fine day into the >> chair of the Chief Minister. I am not someone who doesn't know you, the >> RSS, directly either. My political activism all along has proceeded by >> seeing and knowing you. >> >> Now I travel in the midst of the protection of the weapons of the police. >> But there was a time without it, when I had come to public life after >> completing my studies at Brennen College, Thalassery. If the new RSS men do >> not know about those times, they should ask the old RSS men. Then, I had >> walked amidst the knives you had drawn out and amidst the swords you held >> up. >> >> When you couldn't do anything to me during those times, what do you think >> you are going to do to me now? You have been talking about having managed >> to stop my journey to Madhya Pradesh. As a serving Chief Minister, when I >> go to another state, it is basic courtesy that I accept certain things that >> the government of that State tells me. That government asked me not to go >> there, and I accepted it. But had it been the Pinarayi Vijayan who was not >> a Chief Minister, not even Indra (the king of Hindu gods) or Chandra (moon) >> would have been able to stop me. >> >> So, your threats are not going to intimidate me. Then why make such >> unnecessary statements? >> >> Our country has always responded firmly to such forces. All the >> progressive people here spoke up against the arrogant stand that somebody >> would be prevented from coming and speaking here. I thank all those >> progressive people, and the media which came out against the RSS stand in >> this regard. >> >> I declare this programme inaugurated. I conclude. 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