MARGAO: Prominent litterateur
Datta Naik on Tuesday urged progressive organisations to counter the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with the same aggression it displays on social media. He was speaking at an event held at the
Rachol Seminary hall to commemorate Swami Vivekananda’s visit to the seminary’s library for research. The function also commemorated Swami Vivekananda’s historical speech at the Parliament of Religion in Chicago, US, in 1893.
Naik, who is also president of voluntary organisation Dakshinayan Abhiyan, said Swami Vivekananda’s views on cow slaughter, conversion, caste system and reservation, and his praises for Islam and Christianity were the best response to fascist Hindutva forces and their organisations.
“Hindutva is a dirty bonsai unlike Hinduism, which is a beautiful, blooming tree,” Naik said. “The BJP is in power is because it has a parallel organisation like the RSS. Why are progressive forces not in power? It is because they have no parallel organisations to back them. My aim is that non-fascist political parties come to power.”
Naik further spoke of Swami Vivekananda’s
revolutionary concept of ‘Daritri Narayan’ seeing God reflected in the poor that is predominant in Christianity missionary work of caring for the sick in hospitals, old age homes, and orphanages, besides providing education.
Swami Vivekananda’s visit to the library at Rachol seminary for research in the 19th century was commemorated on Tuesday
