Namaste Bandhus

Many communal leaders are making it look like that the involvement of the RSS and its cadre in the movement against corruption as 'saffronising' the event. Of course, the term 'saffronising' for them is with an intention to demonise the movement and make it look like something that will harm the nation. While the communal leaders are doing what would be expected of them, this refrain has been picked up by the so-called secularists and so-called intellectuals. Once again they have exposed themselves as being on the same page as the communal leaders on issues. If the RSS involvement in movements of importance to the nation is to be seen as the movement causing harm to the nation, then one should say that the fight against the Emergency of 1975 was also a communal affair. It is well known that nearly 80% of those who were jailed during this period were picked up ONLY because they were members of the RSS. While many 'intellectuals', etc., talk with pride about their involvement in the movement against the Emergency, they will never bring out the fact that the foot soldiers belonged primarily to the RSS activists. Some have acknowledged this fact, but only in passing, and that too once or twice. Kuldip Nayar once wrote: "One day in July, at five in the morning, there was a knock on my door. I was arrested and sent to Tihar. The place was full of RSS workers." http://vivekrk.8k.com/iemergency.html Of course, these RSS workers were not there as jailers, but as jailed! If these 'secularists' and 'intellectuals' persist on ignoring this fact, then perhaps they should be reminded what Jayprakash Narayan had said, namely: "I believe you have a historic role to play.... I have great expectations from this revolutionary organisation which has taken up the challenge of creating a new India. I have welcomed your venture wholeheartedly. Sometimes I have offered you my advice and have even criticised you, but that was as a friend...There is no other organisation in the country which can match you...The RSS should think over this: how to bring about economic transformation? How to transform the villages? [Jayprakash Narayan, in an address to a RSS training camp in Bihar, November 3, 1977.] It is yet another exposure of the bankruptcy of intellectualism in India that they are able to resort to an argument only on the basis of labels and not logic.

Regards Ashok Chowgule - Social activist & VHP Vice- President