Mangaluru, Dec 3: Mahendra Kumar, the former Karnataka state unit president of Bajrang Dal, has claimed that Sangh Parivar would be happy if a miscreant belonging to Muslim community kills a Hindu man for any reason or rapes a Hindu woman as such incidents always politically benefitted the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Speaking at a panel discussion of the former activists of the Sangh Parivar outfits on the concluding day of the two-day Jana Nudi organised by Abhimata here, Mr Kumar recalled an incident wherein Sangh Parivar leaders had “guided” him to take advantage of the murder of a Hindu man.
“Gokul, a Hindutva activist was murdered by miscreants belonging to Muslim community in Shivamogga. I had visited the victim’s house to console the aggrieved family members. On the occasion (BJP leader and former deputy chief minister) Eshwarappa and a veteran leader of RSS told me: ‘now the land has become fertile. If you sow, you will reap.’ I was taken aback by their brutality,” he said adding that the incident helped him realize the brutality and bloodthirsty nature of Sangh Parivar.
“This is not the only case. The Sangh Parivar always tried to take advantage of attacks on Hindus. If a Hindu was murdered or raped by Muslim youths, it would be a good issue for them. Hindu youths should realize this fact,” he said.
Terming the Janagraha rallies of the Sangh Parivar demanding the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya as a political stunt to favour the BJP, he asked people to be cautions against the Sangh Parivar’s attempts to polarise society.
“The BJP government failed to act (on the temple) all these years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone back to the Ayodhya issue just to turn the attention away from his failures in governance,” Mr. Kumar said. The agitation is being carried out just to incite Muslim groups and encash on the latter’s reaction to the movement, he said.
Recalling how he and the other activists who have now quit the Sangh Parivar are being targeted, Sudhir Marolli, a former RSS activist from Koppa in Chikkamagaluru district, who is now pracitising law, said that he was being branded as a naxalite as he represented Gowri Lankesh.
Nikethraj Maurya, who was involved in the Jago Bharat and the Namo Brigade campaign, said that his understanding of Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawarharlal Nehru changed after reading books on their lives.
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