[Assam] Fwd: Guwahati: RSS chief's ridiculous comments?

Mon Dec 11 21:52:45 PST 2006

How can responsible peoples like editors of newspapers and ex-bureaucrates
attend a function attended by an organization like RSS; the group of
fundamentalists with no respect to India's DIVERSITY?!!! Its ridiculous..

On 12/12/06, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> lets see if this goes now.
> Also: If RSS chief is really interested in uniting Hindus he should go to
> Kamakhya temple etc and order priests to enrol  Dalits as interns (to become
> future temple priests there ) with RSS paying their expenses. Same with
> Shankaracharyas in various other temples.
>
> I wonder how a religion can have imperialist designs - only humans can.
>
> *umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:34:26 +0000 (GMT)
> From: umesh sharma < jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Guwahati: RSS chief's ridiculous comments?
> To: assam at assamnet.org
>
> [image: The Assam Tribune online]
> *Guwahati, Monday, December 11, 2006*
> ------------------------------
> *Thwart fundamentalist activities in NE, says RSS chief
> *By A Staff Reporter
>  GUWAHATI, Dec 10 – RSS chief KS Sudarshan today called upon the people of
> the North-east to unite against imperialistic designs of the Christian
> church as also the Muslim fundamentalists who had set their eyes on the
> region to further their plans for dominance of their religions. "Both the
> Christian church and the Muslim fundamentalists are engaged in an aggressive
> pursuit of their evil designs of imperialism across the world, and the
> Northeast happens to be an important area of their focus due to its
> strategic location," Sudarshan said while addressing a Prabuddha Nagarik
> Sanmilan (Enlightened Citizens' Meet) at the District Library auditorium.
>
> Terming the unabated infiltration from Bangladesh, increasing activities
> of the church aimed at spreading Christianity, and the growing consumerism
> among the people as the major problems faced by the country, Sudarshan said
> that only a united front from the people could defeat such evil forces.
>
> DN Bezboruah, former editor of *The Sentinel*, in his speech, said that
> infiltration from Bangladesh was the result of inaction on the part the
> elected representatives of the State since 1962. "We cannot blame others for
> the problem created by us, because our own leaders consistently deceived the
> people on the Bangladeshi issue for their narrow vote bank politics that is
> determined by the illegal foreign settlers," he said.
>
> Terming India as the only country where the majority is rendered second
> class citizens due to the unabashed minority-appeasement policy of the
> governments, Bezboruah said that even hard facts and data about the status
> of the Muslim minority ( i.e. their abnormal increase in population) were
> sought to be brushed under the carpet for upholding the so-called
> secularism. "Only yesterday even the Prime Minister spoke about minorities
> having the first rights over the country's resources," he said, adding that
> the state of affairs in Asom – where the Bangladeshis are the first class
> citizens – best sums up the situation.
>
> Stating that the prevailing situation did not hint at a healthy democracy
> in the country, Bezboruah said that the time had come for all the Hindus to
> unite, discarding their differences on grounds of caste. "Nowhere in the
> world can one witness such blatant appeasement of the minorities to the
> extent that the majority is in grave danger of losing their identity. The
> only way out of this morass is a united stand by the Hindus," he said.
>
> DN Chakravorty, editor of Dainik Asam, was of the view that the openness
> of the Hindu religion was being taken advantage of by outsiders, putting in
> jeopardy in the process the very existence of the indigenous population.
> "The need of the hour is to have unity, uplift and understanding among the
> Hindus," he said.
>
> Chakravorty also advocated a policy for separate electorate for the Urdu-
> and Bangla-speaking Muslims on the basis of the 1947 population status who
> would be electing their own representatives.
>
> Chakravorty also lambasted the ULFA for their pro-Bangladeshi stand and
> termed its leaders as traitors. Ridiculing the outfit's call for boycott of
> the forthcoming National Games in Asom and its demand to name the event as
> 'Asom Games', he said that there should be a limit to one's absurdity. "The
> ULFA is agreeable to funds for the Games coming from the Centre but at the
> same time demanding a change of name to Asom, which is simply ludicrous," he
> said.
>
> Former State Chief Secretary JP Rajkhowa stressed the need for stern
> opposition to the move of some minority organisations to bring in a clone of
> the IM (DT) that would be applicable to the entire country following the
> Supreme Court's repeal of the IM (DT) and the Foreigners' (Tribunal) Order.
> "All political partiers and organizations of the State should evolve a
> common stand to thwart this sinister design," he said.
>
>
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> Umesh Sharma
> 5121 Lackawanna ST
> College Park,
> (Washington D.C. Metro Region)
> MD 20740
>
> 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
>
> Ed.M. - International Education Policy
> Harvard Graduate School of Education,
> Harvard University,
> Class of 2005
>
> weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
> website: www.gse.harvard.edu/iep
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