by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
Jay Shah
Bhopal : RSS General Secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi on Saturday said those levelling allegations against BJP chief Amit Shah’s son should go to court, and the RSS does not want to take a stand on the issue.
Taking a different line from what was said by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Thursday, Joshi said those who have levelled allegations against Jay Shah should go to the court.
“It is not necessary that allegations levelled against someone are true. There is no reason to believe this. How allegations are levelled these days, everybody knows,” Joshi said.
He said it is for the court of law to decide who is a guilty and who is not. “So those making charges against Jay Shah should approach the courts because RSS does not deem it fit to take a stand on such issues,” he said at the conclusion of the three-day meet of RSS National Executive Committee here.
Hosabale had earlier said that if there are corruption allegations against anyone, an inquiry should be done and “action can be taken accordingly. But there has to be prima facie evidence of wrong-doing”.
The opposition has demanded a probe into allegations that the turnover of the junior Shah’s company increased 16,000 times in one year after the BJP came to power in 2014.
Joshi also said the RSS will focus on working on the youth in rural areas to bring about social change.
“The Sangh will now focus on rural areas as social change is a big challenge there. We will work on the youth for Hindutva as well as societal transformation.”
Joshi said that India’s 60 per cent population lives in villages and Sangh’s two-third of all shakhas run in villages while one-third work in the cities.
He said that besides running regular shakhas there is also need for focusing on other activities such as promoting social harmony and equality and other societal challenges.
He said that efforts should be made to make farmers self-sufficient and the Sangh feels that the government should formulate agricultural policies only after consulting the farmers.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | News, Politics
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
Nagpur : RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday dismissed reports of cow vigilantes indulging in communal violence, saying that on the contrary those protecting bovines within the constitutional framework were being “attacked and killed”.
Bhagwat asked the government not to misinterpret the facts on cow protection and make sure that criminals were punished and innocents not harmed as the “virtuous work of cow protection will increase in coming days”.
Addressing a crowd of RSS activists at his annual Vijaya Dashami speech in Nagpur, he said volunteers of the Hindutva group and other organisations were peacefully involved in the cow protection campaign, which “is also included in the Directive Principles of our Constitution”.
He said cow smuggling had emerged as a serious issue in all states, and especially on the Bangladesh border which made cow protection “more valuable”.
He said inquiries into recent incidences of violence and atrocities by cow vigilantes had made it “amply clear that these activities or the activists were not involved in those acts of violence”.
“On the contrary many activists who were peacefully involved in cow protection were attacked and killed. This issue is neither discussed nor being inquired. It is unfair to link cow protectors or the entire activity of cow protection with violent incidences or communal feelings,” Bhagwat said in his Hindi speech. The English translation of the speech was made available on the RSS’ website.
The RSS chief said many Muslims involved in the activity of cow protection, cow promotion and management of cow shelters, told him that a “nefarious campaign” was being run to create tension among the people of different religions in India.
Apparently referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stern warning against violence in the name of cow, Bhagwat asked RSS volunteers, who are “piously involved in the activity”, not to get distracted with the statements of “highly placed persons in the government” and remarks by the Supreme Court asking governments to act against those involved in lynching incidents.
“People who are criminals and involved in violent activities should be bothered about that.”
He asked the government to “stay away from such misinterpretation and ensure that criminals get penalised and the innocents are not troubled”.
He said the utility of the Indian breed of cow was scientifically proven by “the medicinal value of cow dung and urine for human beings”.
—IANS
