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New Delhi: RSS sarsanghchalki Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said the ancestors of Hindus and Muslims are the same, and described them as “brothers”, calling for a pitch to him often made Amid fears of growing polarization in India in recent weeks under the BJP-led central government.
“The ancestors of Hindus and Muslims are the same. We are all brothers, live in the same country. Our civilization is one, only our way of worship is different.
“We cannot discriminate on the basis of the pattern of worship. It is our responsibility to protect those who belong to India.”
Bhagwat was speaking at the launch of ‘.Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Stopped Partition‘, a book by Information Commissioner and former journalist Uday Mahurkar.
Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh also attended the event.
Bhagwat said, “Savarkar’s Hindutva was no different from Vivekananda’s”.
“It was not against Muslims. Our culture is liberal, our culture is Hindutva, no one gets separated from his way of worship. Our (Hindu and Muslim) ancestors are one. Had this thought process persisted at the time of the freedom movement, there would have been a way to prevent partition,” Bhagwat said.
Quoting the 17th century Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji, Bhagwat said that he always said that a god gave birth to Hindus and Muslims and there should be no ambiguity about it.
“There is no such thing as minority and majority,” the Kerala Governor said at a function recently. Hindus and Muslims share the same civilization, which is our culture. Muslims are our brothers.” Statement Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan made it last week.
Khan said he rejects the binary of “majority-minority” in India as all citizens enjoy “equal rights”.
Bhagwat also referred to the RSS’s dreams of “Akhand Bharat” – an India that includes Pakistan and Bangladesh – adding that “a united India would be the dream”.
“It is necessary for the world also. No one is happy who is separated from India. Lohia’s dream was also a united India. Our dream should be to make one.” Ideal (ideal) brotherhood society in India,” he said.
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‘Gandhi, Savarkar respected each other’
Echoing Mahurkar, he said that roads should not be named after Muslim kings who invaded India and were “against our civilisation”.
“Akbar is good but not Aurangzeb. There are many good examples, from Dara Shikoh to Ashfaqullah Khan (freedom fighter), they should be respected.
“We always say that appeasement of anyone should not be our mantra. It was also promoted by Savarkar.”
“There were differences between Gandhi and Savarkar on many issues but both respected each other,” Bhagwat said.
“Both cared about each other’s feelings. It was only a few people who tried to create differences between them.”
Rajnath Singh said that there was an attempt to “defame Savarkar” by “Marxist historians”.
“Some people call him a fascist and a Nazi, but he was a great nationalist and freedom fighter. On the instructions of Gandhi, he filed mercy petition, which was the right of every prisoner, but used it as a weapon to defame him. used to,” he said, apparently referring to the opposition claims About Savarkar’s alleged apology letter to the British.
He said, ‘It is not forgivable. “He was one of India’s finest security strategists. He warned of many challenges, which became true over time. “
(Edited by Sunanda Ranjan)
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