New Delhi: In the wake of religious conversion and the ghar wapsi row, including in tribal areas, the RSS on Sunday said the primary purpose of its volunteers working in tribal areas was to create awareness and improve the quality of life of the locals through service. On the concluding day of its Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha in Nagpur, the RSS maintained that Ram Mandir should be build at the earliest but as the matter is sub-judice therefore, “There is no point in taking any movement in this connection immediately. We have to honour the judiciary”.
Reiterating its stand that Hindutva was a way of life, the RSS maintained it has no issues with anybody adopting a particular form of worship, but when “the long-standing values are compromised, society faces a threat”.
The Sangh also passed a resolution asking the BJP-led government and the BJP-ruled states to impart education in the mother tongue of students or constitutionally-recognised state languages, saying those educated in a foreign language get “alienated” from their culture and tradition. The RSS said, while it was “fully supportive” of study of various languages, including foreign languages, it was its considered opinion that “for natural learning and to enrich cultural moorings, education, particularly elementary education, should be in mother tongue or state languages”.
“Hindutva is a lifestyle. We have no issues with people adopting a particular way to worship, but when that lifestyle is compromised, the society faces a threat. Age-old values and traditions of that way of life need to be preserved,” said RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi.
When asked about the difference between the work done by Christian missionaries and RSS volunteers in the tribal areas, Mr Joshi said,
“The primary purpose of the RSS volunteers working in tribal areas is to create awareness among the locals and bring about a qualitative change in their lives.”
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had also created a controversy recently when he had suggested that the main objective behind Mother Teresa’s service to the poor was conversion to Christianity.
