08-16-2006, 08:52 PM
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[ 16 Aug, 2006 1642hrs ISTPTI ]
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NEW DELHI: An RSS film on core Hindutva ideology has tried to project Sikhs as part of the Hindu community, an issue that can be used by critics of Shiromani Akali Dal chief Parkash Singh Badal against the SAD-BJP alliance in the Punjab Assembly elections due next year.
Screened to a packed auditorium here on Wednesday evening, the film shows Sangh chief K S Sudarshan making no distinction between Hindus and Sikhs as two separate communities as he recounts the bloodshed during the 1947 partition.
In the 90-minute documentary on the late Sangh leader Guru Golwalkar, Sudarshan insists that Sangh activists were ordered to protect "every Hindu" from attacks when the subcontinent was being divided into India and Pakistan.
"They were asked (by Golwalkar) to ensure every Hindu is safe (in the region)," he says in the film directed by TV actor and former BJP MP Nitish Bhardwaj, who played Krishna in tele-serial Mahabharta .
Also, it shows a Sikh man beaten up by Muslim attackers in a scene depicting the violence during the division of Punjab. His wife is chased by another sword-wielding attacker.
Both are saved by armed Sangh activists who shoot down one assailant and force the other to retreat.
In Punjab, Badal is under constant attack by his critics both in the Congress and other Akali groups, which accuse him of promoting the RSS Hindutva agenda for votes.
The film also carries footage of SAD leader Master Tara Singh attending a meeting during the launch of the VHP.
[ 16 Aug, 2006 1642hrs ISTPTI ]
RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
NEW DELHI: An RSS film on core Hindutva ideology has tried to project Sikhs as part of the Hindu community, an issue that can be used by critics of Shiromani Akali Dal chief Parkash Singh Badal against the SAD-BJP alliance in the Punjab Assembly elections due next year.
Screened to a packed auditorium here on Wednesday evening, the film shows Sangh chief K S Sudarshan making no distinction between Hindus and Sikhs as two separate communities as he recounts the bloodshed during the 1947 partition.
In the 90-minute documentary on the late Sangh leader Guru Golwalkar, Sudarshan insists that Sangh activists were ordered to protect "every Hindu" from attacks when the subcontinent was being divided into India and Pakistan.
"They were asked (by Golwalkar) to ensure every Hindu is safe (in the region)," he says in the film directed by TV actor and former BJP MP Nitish Bhardwaj, who played Krishna in tele-serial Mahabharta .
Also, it shows a Sikh man beaten up by Muslim attackers in a scene depicting the violence during the division of Punjab. His wife is chased by another sword-wielding attacker.
Both are saved by armed Sangh activists who shoot down one assailant and force the other to retreat.
In Punjab, Badal is under constant attack by his critics both in the Congress and other Akali groups, which accuse him of promoting the RSS Hindutva agenda for votes.
The film also carries footage of SAD leader Master Tara Singh attending a meeting during the launch of the VHP.