What is RSS??
Must Read this 20 Points
1) Field Marshal Cariappa in his speech to RSS volunteers said
"RSS is my heart's work. My dear young men, don't be disturbed by
uncharitable comments of interested persons. Look ahead! Go ahead! The country
is standing in need of your services"
2)
Nov 1949, Dr. Zakir Hussain:
"Allegations against RSS of violence & hatred against the Muslims are
wholly false."
3)
Nov 1949, Dr. Zakir Hussain: "Muslims should learn the
lesson of mutual love, cooperation and organisation from RSS".
4)
Jayaprakash Narayan in 1977: "RSS is a revolutionary
organization. No other organization in the country comes anywhere near
it."
5)
Noted Gandhian leader and the leader of Sarvoday movement,
Jayaprakash Narayan, who earlier was a vocal opponent of RSS had the following
to say about it in 1977 "RSS is a revolutionary organization. No other
organization in the country comes anywhere near it. It alone has the capacity
to transform society, end casteism and wipe the tears from the eyes of the
poor." He further added "I have great expectations from this
revolutionary organization which has taken up the challenge of creating a new
India".
6)
Sikh intellectual and author of 'A History of the Sikhs',
Khushwant Singh, credits members of the RSS with helping and protecting Sikhs
who were being targeted by members of the Congress political party during the
1984 Anti-Sikh Riots. Singh who otherwise has been critical of the RSS and
believes that it is a " communal organization and dangerous to the
country's secular fabric"
7)
The RSS also has been banned in India thrice, during periods
in which the government of the time claimed that they were a threat to the
state: in 1948 after Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, during the Emergency
(1975–77), and after the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition. The bans were
subsequently lifted, in 1949 after the RSS was absolved of charges in the
Gandhi murder case, in 1977 as a result of the Emergency being revoked, and in
1993 when no evidence of any unlawful activities was found against it by the
tribunal constituted under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
8)
After the Independence of India, many organizations including
the RSS aspired to liberate Dadra and Nagar Haveli from Portuguese occupation.
In April 1954, the RSS formed a coalition with the National Movement Liberation
Organization (NMLO), and Azad Gomantak Dal (AGD) for the liberation of Dadra
and Nagar Haveli. On the night of 21 July, United front of Goans, a group,
working independently of the coalition, captured the Portuguese police station
at Dadra and declared Dadra as free. Subsequently on 28 July, volunteer teams
of the RSS and AGD captured the territories of Naroli and Phiparia and
ultimately the capital of Silvassa. The Portuguese forces which escaped and
moved towards Nagar Haveli, were assaulted at Khandvel and were forced to
retreat till they surrendered to the Indian border police at Udava on 11 August
1954. A native administration was setup with Appasaheb Karmalkar of NMLO as the
Administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli on 11 August 1954.
9)
In 1955, RSS leaders demanded the end of Portuguese rule in
Goa and its integration into India. When Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal
Nehru refused to obtain it by armed intervention, RSS leader Jagannath Rao
Joshi led the Satyagraha agitation straight into Goa itself.
10) The RSS earned recognition based on its
volunteer work during the Sino-Indian War in 1962. RSS was invited by Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to take part in the Indian Republic day parade of
1963. It along with several other civilian organizations took part in the
parade. This event helped the RSS increase its popularity and its patriotic
image.
11) Later in 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak wars too, the
RSS volunteers offered their services to maintain law and order of the country
and were apparently the first to donate blood.
12) In 1975, the Indian Government under the Prime
Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, proclaimed emergency rule in India, thereby
suspending the fundamental rights and curtailing the rights of the press. The
volunteers of the RSS formed underground movements for the restoration of
democracy. Literature that was censored in the media was clandestinely
published and distributed on a large scale and funds were collected for the
movement. It said that the movement was "dominated by tens of thousands of
RSS cadres, though more and more young recruits are coming". Talking about
its objectives it said "its platform at the moment has only one plank: to
bring democracy back to India".
13) It has been noted that the RSS volunteers
participated in the Bhoodan movement organized by Gandhian leader Vinobha
Bhave. RSS leader M. S. Golwalkar believed that the movement should inculcate a
right and positive faith in the masses that can make them rise above the base
appeal of Communism.
14) The mission of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has
been described as the revitalization of Indian value system based on
universalism and peace and prosperity to all. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, the
worldview that the whole world is one family, propounded by the ancient thinkers
of India, is considered as the ultimate mission of the organization.
15) The RSS has advocated the training of Dalits
and other backward classes as temple high priests (a position traditionally
reserved for Caste Brahmins and denied to lower castes). They argue that the
social divisiveness of the Caste system is responsible for the lack of
adherence to Hindu values and traditions and reaching out to the lower castes
in this manner will be a remedy to the problem. The RSS has also condemned
'upper' caste Hindus for preventing Dalits from worshipping at temples, saying
that "even God will desert the temple in which Dalits cannot enter".
16) During M. K. Gandhi's visit to RSS Camp
accompanied by Mahadev Desai and Mirabehn at Wardha in 1934, he was surprised
by the discipline and the absence of untouchability in RSS and commented
"When I visited the RSS Camp. I was very much surprised by your discipline
and absence of untouchability ". He personally inquired to Swayamsevaks
and found that they were living and eating together in the camp without
bothering to know their castes.
17) Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar while visiting the RSS camp
at Pune in 1939 observed that Swayamsevaks were moving in absolute equality and
brotherhood without even caring to know the cast of others. In his address to
the Swayamsevaks, he said that “This is the first time that I am visiting the
camp of Sangh volunteers. I am happy to find absolute equality between
Savarniyas (Upper cast) and Harijans (Lower cast) without any one being aware
of such difference existing." When he asked Dr Hedgewar whether there were
any untouchables in the camp, he replied that there are neither
"touchables" nor "untouchables" but only Hindus.
18) RSS runs 27,041 schools (Ekal Vidyalaya) in
remote tribal areas: 7,53,123 socially deprived tribal students are enrolled.
19) RSS has 45,00,000 volunteers assembling in
40-50,000 shakhas each day. The largest volunteer organization in the world!
20) RSS has participated in many relief activities
during natural calamities
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