After ideological bankruptcy, RSS takes guns to face opponents: Dinesh Amin Mattu
Freedom of Expression convention
Bengaluru, September 5: “Both RSS and BJP have seen bankruptcy in their ideologies. So, instead of sorting out their ideological problems through dialogues, they have been opposing their opponents through guns and bullets”, senior journalist Dinesh Amin Mattu said.
Speaking at a session in Freedom of Expression Convention here on Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the murder of Gauri Lankesh, Mattu said that the RSS would complete 100 years in the next seven years. In those long years, the RSS has failed to produce a thinker and a scholar. So, unable to confront with the progressive ideologies through dialogues, it has been opposing through guns and bullets. “According to my opinion, the police have worked so professionally and swiftly in Gauri Lankesh murder case after Gandhi. As a result, the details on the killings of Kalburgi, Dabholkar and Pansare are disclosing. Interestingly, the investigation into the Gauri Lankesh murder is seeing its logical ending”, he said.
Rationalist Narendra Nayak said that “let the communal forces prepare hit lists to kill us. We should not backtrack from our work and agenda. We should not stop speaking fearing about the communal forces”, he said.
Critic MS Ashadevi, Gauri Balaga convener KL Ashok and others spoke on the occasion.
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Voting concludes in Puducherry, its enclaves
Puducherry (PTI): Voting for the 30 Assembly constituencies in the Union Territory of Puducherry concluded at 6 pm on Thursday while people who arrived before the deadline were allowed to wait in queues and cast their votes, officials said.
According to initial estimates, the polling percentage has crossed 86 per cent, they said.
As the NDA is fighting to retain power, the opposition Congress-led bloc is pushing to wrest power from the AINRC-led front in the union territory, centering its campaign on local autonomy and administrative friction.
