Allahabad: RSS takes up pro-CAA campaign at Magh Mela

ALLAHABAD: To counter the Shaheen Bagh (Delhi) and Mansoor Ali park (Allahabad) protest where scores of Muslims women were staging dharna in protest against CAA ( Citizenship Amendment Act), over 800 volunteers of Rastriya Swamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Sunday stepped out in support of pro-CAA campaign among mela visitors, saints, seers and kalpwasis to brief them about the benefit of CAA.
Volunteers of RSS (Prayag Uttar and Dakshin divisions of Prayagraj district) took out massive campaign at sangam noze, kalpwasi’s camps, prominent seers and saints camps and three others sectors and claimed to have distributd over one lakh phamplets among them arriving mela campus to take holy dips.
The RSS volunteers picked up mela campus venue to distribute pamphlets containing details about CAA and its benefits with an aim to target millions of people flocking the banks of Ganga from all over the country. The aim of the campaign was to clear misunderstandings over the CAA.
Before distributing the pro-CAA pamphlets, the RSS volunteers on Sunday held its 'Shakha’ on the campus of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and later moved to sangam and other areas.
Kishan Chandra, RSS Bhibhag pracharak ( Prayagraj) told TOI said “ Around 800 active volunteers of Uttar and Dakshin division took out pro-CAA campaign on mela campus from 6:30 am to 2 am to clear misunderstanding over the CAA.
He added “ we have divided the entire mela campus into six sectors and a total of 110 groups have been engaged to connect with people”. He further added “ volunteers from 300 basti ( a basti forms on the population of 10,000) had participated in the campaign.
He added that a total 110 groups of volunteers had connected over one lakh people and briefed them about importance of CAA at ed sangam noze, kalpwasi sector and three other sector of mela.
As being Sunday and holiday when millions of devotees had arrived sangam – the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and mythological Saraswati to take holy dip, we have chosen the day with an aim to cover maximum population.
The pamphlet explains the need for CAA, claiming that Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Christians and Parsis, on the other side of the borders, were continuously facing atrocities after partition and fleeing to India for the past seven decades. The coloured pamphlets that bear the photograph of father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi cite his views that every Hindu and Sikh residing in Pakistan could come to India if they do not wish to live in Pakistan and it’s the responsibility of Indian government to offer them a normal life.