Bhagwat: Those behind lynching against Hindutva

New Delhi, July 4

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Sarsanghchalak of the RSS Mohan Bhagwat today urged Muslims not to get “trapped in the cycle of fear” that Islam is in danger in India, asserting that the DNA of all Indians is the same.

Addressing an event organised by the Muslim Rashtriya Manch, “Hindustani First, Hindustan First”, the RSS chief said those involved in lynching were “against Hindutva”. He also said that though, at times, some false cases of lynching had been registered against people.

“If a Hindu says that no Muslim should live here then the person is not a Hindu. A cow is a holy animal but people who are lynching others are going against Hindutva. Law should take its own course against them without any partiality,” he said at the launch of a book written by Dr Khawaja Iftikhar Ahmed.

Bhagwat said people could not be differentiated on the basis of how they worshipped. The concept of Hindu-Muslim unity was misleading because there was nothing to unite as they were “not different”, he added.

There can never be dominance of either Hindus or Muslims as “there can only be dominance of Indians”, he said. Underlining that development was not possible without unity in the country, he said the basis of unity should be nationalism and the glory of ancestors.

Bhagwat said the only solution to the Hindu-Muslim conflict was dialogue, not discord. “Hindu-Muslim unity is misleading as they are not different, but one. The DNA of all Indians is the same, irrespective of religion,” he said. “It has been proven that we are descendants of the same ancestors, going back 40,000 years. People of India have the same DNA,” he said.

Addressing the event at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, which goes to polls early next year, Bhagwat said he was there neither for any image makeover nor for vote bank politics.

“The Sangh is not in politics and is doing its work to strengthen the nation and for the welfare of all,” he said. — TNS