Beware of RSS Parrikar, caution
ideologues
Sandesh Prabhudesai
2 July 2002
Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar's
statement that he is a staunch swayamsevak of
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has evoked protests
from ideologues here and Maharashtra.
It sounds bells of caution that Goa
may follow Gujarat, now targeting the Christians here
after experimenting RSS-infected power on Muslims in
Gujarat, say these ideologues.
In an interview to a reputed national
weekly, Parrikar has said he did not mind being both
the RSS man and the chief minister at the same time,
claiming that the RSS is not communal.
According to Dr Kumar Saptarshi, the
Pune-based ideologue and president of recently revived
Yuvak Kranti Dal, no person can be both at the same
time, as the chief minister has to practice equality,
which the RSS never practices.
Dr Saptarshi was down in Goa to deliver
a lecture on the occasion of birth centenary year of
Jayaprkash Narayan. He in fact also appealed to all
the like-minded secular people to unite and counter
the communal designs of the Sangh Parivar, especially
when the RSS man is heading the state.
According to him, Parrikar is an efficient
man and can implement the RSS agenda efficiently in
Goa. He also recalled the way Parrikar had closed 50
primary schools in the state and then handed over the
buildings to Sangh-sponsored institutions to run new
schools.
Parrikar, in the same interview, has
said that he plans to hand over 69 more such schools
to the RSS or even the Church, if they come forward
to run it. The RSS-run Vidya Bharati has already taken
over such pre-primary schools this year.
Condemning the modus operandi, Datta
Damodar Naik, another Goa-based ideologue feels the
silence of the secular people has been misinterpreted,
due to which Parrikar has gone to the extent of making
the statement that he is the RSS-minded chief minister.
Dr Saptarshi feels no man can believe
in both the Constitution of India which talks of secularism
and the RSS which believes in Hindu Rashtra. "It means
that Parrikar actually does not believe in the constitution",
he adds.
Parrikar however claims that he is
a real secular man, the reason for which even Goan Christians
voted for him in the recently held fresh Assembly polls.
Presently, he is running a coalition government, along
with two regional parties, one among which dominates
Goa's Christian belt in South Goa.
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