GUWAHATI, Jan 20 — RSS chief K S Sudarshan today charged certain churches in the country including some in the North East, with indulging in conversion with a political motive and taking the help of militants, reports PTI. “Some churches in the country and the North East were busy in conversion after being politically motivated which was a kind of violence and terror’, Sudarshan told mammoth rally of RSS workers at the Netaji School in Maligaon here. Referring to NE states and Tripura in particular, the RSS leader said it was indeed a matter of great concern that militant outfits, including the NLFT, were terrorising people in the name of religion. To reverse this trend, Sudarshan said, the mindset of people had to be changed as they should realise that conversion is an attack on civilisation itself. While clarifying that the RSS was not a fundamentalist organisation, he said Hinduvta was a national concept and was imbibed in thee very culture of our country. Criticising Pakistan for its alleged “mischievous role” in the relationship with India, Sudarshan said, the country should be stronger in terms of weaponry to command respect in the international community.
“Our nuclear weapons should be updated with critical tests and the soldiers equipped with sophisticated weapons to counter the threat posed by countries like Pakistan,” he said. The RSS leader, dressed in khaki shorts and white shirt, during his hour-long speech also alleged that through the ISI. Pakistan was trying to destabilise the country. Sudarshan said the country should not believe in the words of Pakistan President General Musharraf as he was adopting a very “dubious role” in the context of handing over the wanted criminals to India. “The general had denied the presence of any criminals of our country in Pakistan which was false as several of them had their houses there,” he said. “The Pakistan leader had time and again rejected all offers for friendship with our country which should never be forgotten,” he said.
Voicing concern at the growing rate of infiltration from Bangladesh to the North East, the RSS chief feared that it might lead to Islamisation of the region. “The Bangladesh government was terrorising the Hindus in that country who were forced to take shelter here,” he said. The RSS leader urged the central government to open camps and shelter the refugees from Bangladesh and then move the United Nations to pressurise the Bangla government not to harass, the Hindus in that country. Earlier wore than 400 RSS workers brought out a procession in the city and later congregated at the Netaji school field.