RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Commences 3-Day Visit to Assam
#RSS Chief #MohanBhagwat Commences 3-Day Visit to #Assam
Mohan Bhagwat, the prominent Chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has embarked on a momentous three-day visit to Assam, underscoring the organization’s commitment to its activities in the region. The visit is set to strengthen ties with Swayamsevaks and bolster their ideological training at the ongoing Sangh Shiksha Varg (2nd year) camp.
The training camp, which kicked off on July 12, has…
View On WordPress
0 notes
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a grand temple to Hindu god Ram in the flashpoint city of Ayodhya.
He said it heralded "a new era" for India - the temple replaces a 16th-Century mosque torn down by Hindu mobs in 1992, sparking riots in which nearly 2,000 people died.
Top film stars and cricketers were among guests at the event in Ayodhya.
But some Hindu seers and most of the opposition boycotted it, saying Mr Modi was using it for political gain.
General elections are due in India in the next few months and Mr Modi's political rivals say the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be seeking votes in the temple's name in a country where 80% of the population is Hindu.
Critics have also accused the government of exploiting a religious celebration in a country which - according to its constitution - is secular. For Muslims, India's biggest minority, the event evoked fear and painful memories, members of the community in Ayodhya told the BBC in the run-up to Monday's ceremony.
Televised live, it showed Mr Modi performing religious rituals inside the temple's sanctum along with priests and Mohan Bhagwat, head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) - the ideological fountainhead of Hindu nationalist parties.
The complex history of India's Ayodhya holy site
Transforming a flashpoint holy city into the ‘Hindu Vatican’
"Today's date will go down in history," Mr Modi said after the event. "After years of struggle and countless sacrifices, Lord Ram has arrived [home]. I want to congratulate every citizen of the country on this historic occasion."
The temple has been constructed at a cost of $217m (£170m), funded from private donations. Only the ground floor was opened - the rest is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The construction work is part of a revamp for the city, estimated to cost more than $3bn.
The building of the Ram temple in Ayodhya fulfils a decades-long Hindu nationalist pledge. Many Hindus believe the Babri mosque was built by Muslim invaders on the ruins of a temple where the Hindu god was born.
The movement to build the temple helped propel the BJP into political prominence in the 1990s.
There was a festive atmosphere as tens of thousands of chanting Hindu devotees waved flags and beat drums - military helicopters showered flower petals on the temple. Saffron flags with pictures of Lord Ram line streets in the city festooned with marigolds, as do banners with the faces of Mr Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Some of India's biggest celebrities, including Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, attended.
Temple rises from ruins of one of India’s darkest days
Listen: The temple at the heart of Modi's India re-election bid
Transforming a flashpoint holy city into the ‘Hindu Vatican’
In many other northern cities Hindus lit lamps, and saffron flags carrying images of Ram are fluttering on rooftops, including in several parts of Delhi. Cinemas screened the event, and big screens relayed pictures from Ayodhya to town squares and residential neighbourhoods.
The ceremony, called Pran Pratishtha, which loosely translates from Sanskrit into "establishment of life force", lasted about an hour. Hindus believe that chanting mantras and performing rituals around a fire will infuse sacred life in an idol or a photograph of a deity.
Several domestic TV stations built huge sets by the side of the river Saryu, a tributary of the Ganges, just behind the temple, and provided wall-to-wall coverage of the event, some proclaiming the moment of consecration as the start of "Ram Rajya" (Lord Ram's rule) in India.
Hindus celebrated the inauguration in other countries too. Massive billboards of Lord Ram graced Times Square in New York, where a group of devotees braved the freezing weather to gather in the middle of the night.
Temples all across the United Kingdom - where Indians are one of the largest diaspora groups - marked the event. Colourful posters had been shared inviting devotees to honour the occasion and celebrations involved flowers, sweets and music. There were also some celebrations in Muslim-majority Dubai - where Indians are a significant population - but from Indian news reports these appeared more muted than elsewhere.
In 2019, the Supreme Court gave the disputed land to Hindus after a protracted legal battle followed the mosque's demolition. Muslims were given a plot outside the city for a mosque but have yet to build one.
One member of the community the BBC spoke to in Ayodhya ahead of Monday's inauguration agreed that Hindus have the right to build the temple after the Supreme Court gave them the site.
"We did not accept that decision happily, but what can we do," he said. Another man said he was happy Hindus are building the temple - "but we are also sad because it was built after destroying a mosque".
The new three-storey temple - made with pink sandstone and anchored by black granite - stretches across 7.2 acres in a 70-acre complex. A 51-inch (4.25-ft) statue of the deity, specially commissioned for the temple, was unveiled last week. The idol has been placed on a marble pedestal in the sanctum sanctorum.
Thousands of police were deployed for Monday's event, despite Mr Modi having appealed to pilgrims not to turn up and to watch the ceremony on television. In many states a full or half day holiday was called, with schools and colleges closed and stock markets shut.
The build-up to a demolition that shook India
The man who helped Lord Ram win the Ayodhya case
But a sour note was struck with some top religious seers saying that as the temple was not yet complete, it was against Hinduism to perform the rituals there, and many opposition leaders deciding to stay away.
Some opposition-ruled states also announced their own plans for the day - West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she would pray at the iconic temple to goddess Kali in Kolkata and then lead an all-faith rally. The eastern state of Odisha (Orissa) unveiled huge plans to bring pilgrims to the Jagannath temple in Puri, one of the holiest sites for Hindus.
Authorities say they expect more than 150,000 visitors per day once the temple in Ayodhya is fully ready.
To accommodate this expected rush, new hotels are being built and existing ones spruced up as part of a major makeover and in recent weeks, a new airport and railway station have opened.
Officials say they are building a "world-class city where people come as pilgrims and tourists", but many local people have told the BBC that their homes, shops and "structures of religious nature" have been either completely or partially demolished to expand roads and set up other facilities.
7 notes
·
View notes
After LS poll results ties between PM RSS have nosedived: Congress | Politics News
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat (Photo: PTI)
2 min read Last Updated : Sep 07 2024 | 12:35 AM IST
The Congress took a swipe at the ruling BJP on Friday over RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s reported remarks that “people will decide whether we will become the god or not”, claiming that after the Lok Sabha poll results, the relations between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Sangh have “nosedived”.
The opposition party also claimed that with each passing week, the lifespan of this government is getting shortened.
“After June 4, 2024, relations between the non-biological PM and RSS have nosedived — and they continue to be in turbulence. At an event in Pune … the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat rebuked the PM for his claim to non biological origins, saying ‘Whether we will become God or not, people will decide. We should not proclaim that we have become God’,” Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X.
With each passing week, the lifespan of this government is getting shortened, he claimed.
Ramesh tagged a media report that quoted the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief as making the remarks.
Bhagwat was speaking at an event to mark the centenary year of Shankar Dinkar Kane (popularly known as Bhaiyyaji), who worked in Manipur, focused on children’s education until 1971, brought students to Maharashtra and arranged for their stay.
After the Lok Sabha poll results, Bhagwat had expressed concern over peace eluding ethnic strife-torn Manipur even after a year, criticised the common discourse during the election and called for moving on instead of unnecessary talks on what and how of the polls after they were over and the results out.
The opposition leaders had seized on his remarks to take a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Modi. Ramesh had said, “If not the ‘one-third’ Prime Minister’s conscience or the repeated demands of the people of Manipur, perhaps Mr Bhagwat can prevail upon the former RSS office-bearer to go to Manipur.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
First Published: Sep 07 2024 | 12:35 AM IST
Source link
via
The Novum Times
0 notes
Trimmed Video of RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Goes Viral, Falsely Claims Body's Stance Against Reservations
A video posted on 14 May 2024 is gaining attention on X (formerly twitter) showing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat hinting at the internal agreement of the body against reservations in the country.
https://twitter.com/iamAKstalin/status/1790271070001602933?s=19
Screenshot of one of the posts spreading this video
https://twitter.com/JK123400/status/1790261562218786901
मोहन भागवत बोल रहा है,
"अंदर अंदर आरक्षण का विरोध है, बहार आ के बोल नहीं सकते।"
अरे बोलेगा कैसे बिहार 2015 में जो बांस दिया गया था, अभी तक ठीक से खड़ा नहीं हो पा रहा है। 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/L5kzTp8CXe
— बांस प्रकोष्ठ, राजद (@professor_lalu) May 14, 2024
archive
In this video, RSS chief is heard saying, "Sangh waale baahar se toh baat achi kahenge, andar jaake kehte hain aarakshan ka humara virodh hai. Baahar hum bol nahi sakte."
(People from Sangh (RSS) will state good things outside, but internally they oppose the reservations. We cannot state this out in the public).
Truth
The viral video is trimmed from a complete speech to change it's context.
The ANI tag present in the viral posts led to the original video posted by ANI on 28 April 2024. The original video shows the entire statement given by Bhagwat. It shows that the viral video is trimmed to focus on a specific statement, highlighting it out of the original context.
#WATCH | Hyderabad, Telangana: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says, "A video is being circulated that RSS is against reservation and we cannot speak about this outside. Now this is completely false. The Sangh has been supporting all reservations as per the Constitution since the… https://t.co/lGju5pukHj pic.twitter.com/crS5FORdv1
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2024
archive
"Abhi main yahaan aaya kal toh maine suna... ek video ghoom raha hai ki Sangh waale baahar se toh baat achi kahenge, andar jaake kehte hain aarakshan ka humara virodh hai. Baahar hum bol nahi sakte. Ab yeh ekdum asatya baat hai, galat baat hai. Jabse aarakshan aaya hai tabse samvidhaan sammat saare aarakshan ko Sangh poorna samarthan deta hai aur Sangh yeh kehta hai ki aarakshan jinke liye hai unko jabtak aavashyak lagega ya saamaajik karano se diya gaya hai woh bhedbhaav jabtak hai tabtak yeh aarakshan jaari rehna chahiye."
(When I came here yesterday, I heard... that a video is circulating stating that people from Sangh (RSS) will state good things outside, but internally they oppose the reservations. We cannot state this out in the public. Now this entirely false. Since reservations have begun, Sangh gives complete support to constitutionally granted reservations and Sangh says that those who are eligible for reservations till the extent they require it or those given due to societal reasons of discriminations, until the time these are prevalent in the society, for such reasons the reservations must keep continuing).
Read the full article
0 notes