Ghaziabad: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said that the DNA of all Indians is one and Muslims should not get trapped in the "cycle of fear" that Islam is under threat in India.
He was addressing at a program organized by Rashtriya Muslim Manch on the topic 'Hindustani first, Hindustan first'. He stated that people cannot be differentiated on the basis of their way of worship.
The RSS chief attacked those involved in the incidents of lynching, saying that 'they are against Hindutva'.
However, he said that some false cases of lynching have been registered against the people. Bhagwat said that do not fall into this cycle of fear that Islam is in danger in India.
He said that development is not possible without unity in the country. .Underlining that development is not possible without unity in the country, the RSS chief stressed that the basis of unity should be nationalism and the glory of ancestors. The only solution to Hindu-Muslim conflict is dialogue, not discord, he had said.
Mohan Bhagwat stated that the idea of Hindu-Muslim unity is misleading because duo are not aloof but one. The DNA of all Indians is the same, irrespective of religion.
“If a Hindu says that no Muslim should live here, then the person is not Hindu. Cow is a holy animal but the people who are lynching others are going against Hindutva. Law should take its own course against them without any partiality," Bhagwat as saying while addressing an event organised by the Muslim Rashtriya Manch on the theme ‘Hindustani First, Hindustan First’.
Asserting that people can’t be differentiated on how they worship, he said, “Don’t get trapped in the cycle of fear that Islam is in danger in India.”
RSS chief added that we are in a democracy. There cannot be a dominance of Hindus or Muslims. Only Indians can dominate here.
However, Bhagwat started his address by saying that he has neither joined the program to create any image nor for vote bank politics.
He said that the Sangh is neither in politics nor does it care about maintaining an image. The RSS chief said that it (the Sangh) continues the work for empowering the nation and for the welfare of all people in the society.
Muslim cleric asks RSS to be comprehended 1st, then touch hindu-muslim ties on cow lynching
A Muslim cleric said it would be better if RSS makes his own people understand what he says.
Speaking at a program organised by Muslim Rashtriya Manch, the RSS Chief on Sunday had stated that people can’t be differentiated on how they worship.
Renowned Muslim cleric, Maulana Sufiyan Nizami said on Monday, “Mohan Bhagwat has been repeatedly saying that those who live in India have the same DNA, then why don’t we see the DNA of those who are lynched in the name of cow and also for not saying ‘Vande Matram’. Why are they killed in the name of the religion?"
He further says that ," We firmly believe that if Mohan Bhagwat tells this to people from Bajrang Dal, VHP, etc. it will be helpful, else such statements will prove useless as in the past also such statements have been given and even after that Muslims have been lynched. Only if Mohan Bhagwat makes the groups related to his organization about what he has said then India can be a better place and even Muslims will be able to live peacefully here.” (WD/UNI)
