08-08-2004, 08:48 PM
National
'Administration must be cleansed of people owing allegiance to RSS'
New Delhi, Aug. 8 (PTI): Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to cleanse the administration of people owing allegiance to the RSS, an organisation he accused of being responsible for the killing of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi.
"Our first duty is that the fascist forces of RSS should be detected. Today, Government administration is in grip of the RSS, we have to cleanse it," he said at the National Convention on Secularism here.
The veteran Congress leader, who removed academicians close to the BJP and RSS from panels drafting textbooks for schools, said the RSS had a strong hold on the administration as "men having sympathies with the Sangh Parivar were appointed (by the previous Government) to key positions."
"If an institution's biggest achievement was killing of Gandhi than you can expect what national purpose it can serve," he said calling for "exposing the RSS-men" in the Government.
"Not one but there are hundred different fronts of the RSS. They are getting crores of rupees from within and outside the country. The previous Government allowed foreign money to come in but now this web has to be broken. People should know for what purpose the money was used for," Singh said.
The Minister hoped that "the Prime Minister will take definitive action in the regard."
CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan, said Singh and I&B Minister Jaipal Reddy, were facing difficulties due to the presence of a large number of "RSS-men" in their Ministries.
"Committees are filled with RSS-men. Raj hamara, Governor tumhara (its our Government but the Governor is of the RSS-BJP). How long will this last," Bardhan said.
The CPI leader charged the BJP with propagating politics of hate and said the party had changed the word Hindutva with nationalism. "Don't forget Hitler played havoc around the world in the garb of nationalism."
Senior Congress leader and noted advocate R K Anand, demanded a ban on the RSS saying even Sardar Patel had opposed the RSS.
"Huge amount of money was garnered abroad and distributed among several organisations which were close to the RSS. Under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, the purpose foreign money was brought in and the use it was put to has to be told to the Government. The money the RSS received should be investigated," he said.
Sachin Pilot, MP from Rajasthan, moved a resolution calling for a thorough study of working of the RSS and countering its "false propaganda and politics of hate and teaching secularism in schools".
"The Lok Sabha election mandate was against parties which wanted to divide the country. We want development of every section of society," he said.
'Administration must be cleansed of people owing allegiance to RSS'
New Delhi, Aug. 8 (PTI): Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to cleanse the administration of people owing allegiance to the RSS, an organisation he accused of being responsible for the killing of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi.
"Our first duty is that the fascist forces of RSS should be detected. Today, Government administration is in grip of the RSS, we have to cleanse it," he said at the National Convention on Secularism here.
The veteran Congress leader, who removed academicians close to the BJP and RSS from panels drafting textbooks for schools, said the RSS had a strong hold on the administration as "men having sympathies with the Sangh Parivar were appointed (by the previous Government) to key positions."
"If an institution's biggest achievement was killing of Gandhi than you can expect what national purpose it can serve," he said calling for "exposing the RSS-men" in the Government.
"Not one but there are hundred different fronts of the RSS. They are getting crores of rupees from within and outside the country. The previous Government allowed foreign money to come in but now this web has to be broken. People should know for what purpose the money was used for," Singh said.
The Minister hoped that "the Prime Minister will take definitive action in the regard."
CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan, said Singh and I&B Minister Jaipal Reddy, were facing difficulties due to the presence of a large number of "RSS-men" in their Ministries.
"Committees are filled with RSS-men. Raj hamara, Governor tumhara (its our Government but the Governor is of the RSS-BJP). How long will this last," Bardhan said.
The CPI leader charged the BJP with propagating politics of hate and said the party had changed the word Hindutva with nationalism. "Don't forget Hitler played havoc around the world in the garb of nationalism."
Senior Congress leader and noted advocate R K Anand, demanded a ban on the RSS saying even Sardar Patel had opposed the RSS.
"Huge amount of money was garnered abroad and distributed among several organisations which were close to the RSS. Under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, the purpose foreign money was brought in and the use it was put to has to be told to the Government. The money the RSS received should be investigated," he said.
Sachin Pilot, MP from Rajasthan, moved a resolution calling for a thorough study of working of the RSS and countering its "false propaganda and politics of hate and teaching secularism in schools".
"The Lok Sabha election mandate was against parties which wanted to divide the country. We want development of every section of society," he said.