Raichur: Activists condemn RSS's Hindu Rashtra agenda during convention
Raichur: Chhattisgarh-based anti-caste movement leader Tuhin Dev has strongly criticised the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), calling it a "global terrorist organisation" responsible for the killings of rationalists like Gauri Lankesh, M.M. Kalburgi, and Govind Pansare. Speaking at a public gathering in Lingasugur on Thursday, he accused the RSS of pushing India towards a Hindu Rashtra by handing over the country’s resources to corporate entities.
The event, titled "Those Who Do Not Accept the Constitution Should Leave India: Anti-Hindu Rashtra People's Convention," was held at the Ayyadakki Lakkamma Vedike. Dev alleged that the Modi-led government is acting as an "RSS agent" by prioritising corporate interests over public welfare, citing states like Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan as examples where "double-engine governments" have been implementing policies against Dalits and marginalised communities.
Kanaka Gurupith’s Siddharamanandapuri Swami warned against attempts to replace the Indian Constitution with a "Manuwadi, Sanatan Constitution" and accused certain groups of exploiting farmers, labourers, Dalits, and minorities to enforce their ideological agenda.
Activist R. Manasayya, who presided over the event, criticised the RSS for allegedly inciting communal hatred and recruiting marginalised youth for disruptive activities instead of providing them with basic amenities. He called on Dalits, backward communities, and minorities to mobilise against what he described as the government's efforts to change the Constitution.
The convention was attended by several religious leaders and activists, including Pandit Sufi Syed Bhasha, Buddhist monk Dhammadeep Banteji, Valmiki Gurupeeth’s Varadaneshwara Swami, Karnataka Janashakti president Noor Sridhar, and others.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
