New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat claimed on Sunday that India is a “Hindu Rashtra”. This statement comes a day after his claim that if Hindus disappear from the world, the world itself will cease to exist. Bhagwat was addressing a Hindu religious event in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, where Chief Minister and Hindutva-BJP leader Yogi Adityanath was also present, according to a report by IANS.
He asked the citizens of India to read the Bhagwat Gita since people who think they are moving ahead in life still sense they are on the wrong path.”
“Bharat’s life traditions once brought peace and harmony to the world,” he claimed.
A day ago, the Hindutva organisation’s chief claimed that without Hindus, the world cannot exist, suggesting that Hindu society is central to sustaining the world.
He said that every nation in the world has seen all kinds of situations. When civilisations like Yunaan (Greece), Misr (Egypt) and Roma were wiped off the earth, Hindu civilisation persisted.
He claimed that Hindu society is the global custodian of dharma, India Today reported.
According to his claims, Bharat is the name of an immortal civilisation, and Hindus will always exist since they have created a network in their society. He claimed that the world will cease to exist when Hindus cease to exist.
Meanwhile a recent US report on an India-specific issue update suggested that the RSS-backed BJP government has been enacting legislations discriminatory to Muslims and Christians, including anti-conversion laws, cow-slaughter laws and the Citizenship Act, and it linked these measures to the RSS’s declared goal of creating a Hindu Rashtra, while also recalling the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat during which Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then an RSS volunteer and serving chief minister, was accused of failing to act decisively.