Mob violence cannot be welcomed: Indresh Kumar

Condemning mob lynching incidents in the nation, All India Working Committee member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Indresh Kumar today said that mob violence cannot be welcomed in any form. The senior RSS leader appealed to people to denounce violence in the name of religion and said that a collective effort by the society can stop such incidents.

The RSS ideologue, while talking to media persons in a press conference here on Monday, said that cow is universal mother as its milk is the consumed by most of the children after mother’s milk. “Tell me one religious place where cow is sacrificed. Give me one religious book that tells that cow should be killed for food. If you drink milk of cow, its sacrifice or its killing for food should be stopped. A cultural upbringing of kids in the society can really make it happen,” he said.

 Kumar also questioned the role of missionaries and alleged that they have failed to instill feeling of nationalism among students and are rather involved in divisive preaching.  Talking about Patthalgadi issue in Jharkhand, he said that the political parties that were ruling the country since independence largely ignored the fact that the Church was not teaching students to say “Hindustan Zindabad”.

“Now they are using foul words to hide the evil business of selling children. If good forces were active in the rural areas of the State why Patthalgadi is taking place against the Constitution? Is it merely a coincidence that Church is never attacked by naxals and other disruptive forces? We need to point these facts before the government so that people without any malafide intention could go into the rural and backward areas and cultivate feeling of nationalism among the masses,” said he.

Kumar, who was in Ranchi to inaugurate the office cum residence of Hindu Jagaran Manch, stressed on embracing the word Hindu as an identity of the people living in the country rather than considering it a religious identity. “First, we are all humans then our identities are based on the region we live. There is nothing communal in calling an Indian a Hindu,” he said.

“If the word Hindu is communal, then Russian, French, American, German, every identity is communal. Hindu word is nationalistic and humanitarian. It is the most secular among others. It is a super secular word and India is the most secular country,” he added.

Commenting on religious diversities and Ram Temple issue, Kumar said that the idea of religion is not repulsive for communities. “Ram is Khuda and Khuda is Ram. Now, the Muslim parties have also accepted that there was no historical proof of any shrine at the Ram Janmbhoomi site in Ayodhya. Earlier the case was being heard at Allahabad High Court in the name of Ram Janmbhoomi Vs Babri Maszid but in the Supreme Court the name has been changed to Ram Janmbhoomi Vs Vivadit Dhancha.”

He said that the Congress and other radical parties do not want speedy hearing of the case and fast judgment because it will then be in favourof the people. “There can be several Ram Temples at several places but Ram Janmbhoomi is just one. Ram Temple was there, it is there and will be there,” he said.