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RSS To Hold Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha In Nagpur From March 15-17

By LokMarg 21st February 2024

The annual meeting of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh will be held in Nagpur on March 15, 16, and 17.

Taking to the microblogging site X, RSS Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh, Sunil Ambekar posted, “Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS): This year RSS’s Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (Annual General Meeting) will be on 15, 16 and 17th March 2024 at Nagpur.”

The entire year’s program and agenda of the Sangh will be decided in Pratinidhi Sabha, which is the most significant meeting of the RSS.

Earlier, last year, the annual meeting of the RSS was held on March 12, 13 and 14, at Samalkha, Haryana.

During ‘Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha’, a three-day annual meet of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) organized in Haryana’s Samalkha last year, various issues including “population explosion” in the country and “social harmony” were discussed, said the Sangh sources.

According to Sangh sources, emphasis was given to topics like spreading “social harmony” among the masses. Discussion on ways to control the population was also held during the event.

“India is dealing with ‘population explosion’. The solution to this problem and ways to control it were discussed in the meeting. Along with this, issues leading to population explosion were also identified”, said the Sangh sources.

“The imbalance of population in some parts of the country especially in states like Bengal, Assam, and Bihar bordering Bangladesh is also a major cause of concern,” they added. (ANI)

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Popular Front of India is an Islamic Version of RSS

By LokMarg 10th October 2022

KA Shaji, a South India-based journalist who writes on politics, human rights and environment, traces the rise of Popular Front and its communal agenda

Going by the genesis, a collective called Muslim Cultural Centre (MCC) was formed during the late 1980s in the Nadapuram region of Kozhikode district in north Kerala by certain wealthy Muslims of the region to fight the might of the agricultural labourers’ union of the CPI (M). Over the years, the MCC turned into the prototype of the National Democratic Front (NDF), which was later rechristened as the Popular Front of India (PFI).

In Nadapuram, most agricultural labourers were Hindu Ezhavas and tenants of wealthy Muslims. Gulf money also contributed to the financial growth of Muslims there while the agricultural workers were given peanuts. Most Muslim landlords were traditionally activists of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).

CPI (M) firebrand leader A Kanaran inspired the agricultural workers to engage frequently in class struggles against the landlords. The struggles seeking solutions to injustice and inequalities, later evolved into communal clashes. Thereby ideology and politics disappeared, communal polarisations erupted and became entrenched. The clashes turned into Hindu-Muslim conflicts.

When the Ayodhya movement gained strength in the 1990s, MCC became the Babri Masjid Protection Committee. Its leaders wanted a state-level permanent mechanism to mobilise Muslim youth against both the BJP-RSS and CPI (M). On November 14, 1993, the NDF was formed. The shilanyas at Ayodhya created resentment among the Muslims in Kerala. But, IUML, the moderate alliance partner of the Congress in the state, failed to address the anger. Movements initiated by Abdul Nasar Mahdani and Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait were dubbed cult worshipping. In this context, the old MCC activists of Nadapuram coordinated radical elements across the state so as to ‘protect Islam’.

The NDF and PFI both began as cadre-based outfits. They recruited only fundamentalists. They organised closed-door training sessions. There was no transparency in their activities. While terming the BJP-RSS as their main enemies, they always resisted CPI (M) and left politics tooth and nail too. They attacked the IUML, accusing it of being a pack of cowards. It blamed the Congress for all the issues faced by Muslims in the country.

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The organisation infused hatred against other religions among young Muslims recruited from madrasas across the state. Religious teachings imparted to them declared that there is nothing beyond Islam’s teachings. Indeed, the NDF’s first target was not BJP or RSS, but those Muslims who were involved in inter-religious marriages. Many lost their lives, others limbs. It found blasphemy as the most heinous crime. The hand of a Christian professor was chopped off for alleged blasphemy.

The NDF or PFI have never been democratic. They are flush with funds but its source has largely been unknown. They ruined the IUML in the southern districts of Kerala and targeted moderate Muslim leaders. Many BJP and CPI (M) cadres were also killed. There have been murders, chopping off limbs, attacks against inter-faith marriages. The PFI played a pivotal role in the communal riot at Marad beach in Kozhikode. In recent years, it became a pan-India organisation through mergers and expansions.

In fact, the PFI is an Islamic version of the RSS. Banning it alone would not meet any purpose. It has to be opposed politically and ideologically. Democratic engagements with the community by secular forces is the sole and ultimate solution.

Indeed, the ban and the arrests of their members reek of BJP-RSS vested interests. But it is also true that the PFI mobilised Muslims on communal grounds. It wanted Muslims in the country not to have any democratic engagement with secular or democratic forces. Communists and the Congress were its proclaimed enemies. It favoured militancy. It has actually jeopardised the ‘Muslim situation’ in India. It has made ordinary Muslims insecure. It has caused severe damage to the Muslim cause and identity.

However, the entire syndrome exposes the limits of minority communalism. A single police action by a majority government can destroy any minority communalism build-up. But the ordinary Muslim will have to pay the price. They will get further alienated.

As long as the BJP-RSS is in power, no ultra-fundamentalist or rabidly communal Hindu organisation can be banned in India. They all have government support. The previous bans on RSS failed to yield any results. Democratic mobilisation of people in secular platforms is the only option to fight the BJP-RSS. Political education can help India survive the BJP-RSS. Minority organisations must stand solidly with secular, inclusive and democratic forces.

PFI Planed To Turn India Into Islamic Nation: M’rashtra ATS Chief

By LokMarg 29th September 2022

Emphasizing the urgent need to ban the Popular Front of India (PFI), Maharashtra ATS chief Vineet Agarwal on Thursday said that the outfit was planning to turn India into an Islamic nation by 2047 and big leaders of the country including from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were their target.
Speaking to ANI, Agarwal said that it was very important to ban PFI because they were slow poison for the country.

“PFI was banned in time. Maharashtra ATS raided many places and arrested a total of 21 people and many electronic gadgets were also confiscated. Post the ban the organisation has been dissolved. Now, they don’t have any right to regroup or protest on any platform except on the legal platform,” said the ATS chief.

Agarwal said that the big leaders of the country and the people of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were on the target of PFI.

He further said that the PFI members used to portray themselves as persons associated with social development and physical education to give lectures to incite people.

“PFI had opened training centers in many places of the state and used to do anti-national work. PFI used to tell people in their coaching center by referring to old videos and incidents that your people have been subjected to a lot of atrocities, Mughals will not come to save you, you have to save yourself. PFI used to tell participants to keep items for self-defence like stones, knives, swords, bricks, sharp objects and other things on their terraces,” he said.

The ATS Chief said that till now more than 2,000 people were trained in Maharashtra.

“We are using tools to recover their data, they had planned to make India an Islamic country by 2047 by motivating people to commit hate crimes when India will complete 100 years of independence. but the government’s decision has toppled their plan. Every 5 years an agenda was prepared for the same but they have been stopped in the middle and the right steps have been taken,” said Agarwal.

“Target killing was their modus operandi by identifying the target,” he added.

He further said that the ATS has also seized the bank accounts of the arrested PFI members and terror funding is also being investigated.

“There are lakhs of rupees in the seized bank accounts of the PFI members and the money was being spent in the name of the outfit. After verifying the information from where the money was coming into the PFI fund, the ATS came to know that the money was coming from different places,” he added.

Earlier, Maharashtra Home Department has issued an order using powers under Section 42 of UAPA authorizing the Police commissioners and District magistrates to exercise their powers against the Popular Front of India (PFI).

“Maharashtra government home department has issued an order using powers under section 42 of UAPA and with the previous approval of MHA Central government. All the Powers under Sections 7 and 8 of UAPA will be exercised by Police commissioners and District magistrates against the PFI and other related associations,” said the sources from the Home Department.

The move comes a day after the Union Home Ministry imposed a ban on the Popular Front of India for “terror links”.

Other states including Kerala and Tamil Nadu have passed such orders declaring the PFI as an unlawful association.

“The power which has been directed to be exercised by the State Government under section 7 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, stands delegated to the District Magistrate/ Commissioner of Police/ Superintendent of Police concerned, within their jurisdiction,” the order by the Kerala government dated September 28 stated.

“The power which has been directed to be exercised by the State Government under section 8 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, stands delegated to the District Magistrate/Commissioner of Police/ Superintendent of Police concerned, within their jurisdiction,” it further added.

The order issued by the Tamil Nadu government dated September 28, it read, “The Governor of Tamil Nadu hereby directs that all the powers which are exercisable by the Government of Tamil Nadu under sections 7 and 8 of the said Act in relation to the aforesaid unlawful association, namely “Popular Front of India (PEI) and its associates or affiliates or fronts including Rehab India Foundation (RIF), Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala” shall also be exercised by the Commissioners of Police in the Cities and by the District Collectors elsewhere.”

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had made the announcement through a notification issued late on Tuesday night, declaring “the PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts as an unlawful association with immediate effect”.

Along with PFI, the ban is also imposed on its fronts, including Rehab India Foundation (RIF). Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organization (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation and Rehab Foundation, Kerala as an “unlawful association”.

The notification clearly mentioned that the ban has been imposed against PFI and its associates, affiliates or fronts for “indulging in unlawful activities, which are prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty, and security of the country and have the potential of disturbing public peace and communal harmony of the country and supporting militancy in the country.” (ANI)