NAGPUR: The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh today celebrated its 100th Foundation Day (Vijayadashmi Utsav). On the occasion RSS Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat addressed the Swayamsewaks at Reshim Bagh, Nagpur.
Padma Bhushan awardee and former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Dr K Radhakrishnan was the chief guest at the RSS annual Vijayadashami celebrations.
While addressing the swayamsewaks Dr Mohan Bhagwat expressed deep concern over the negative influence of distorted propaganda and poor values on younger generation. “The distorted propaganda and poor values spread by various systems and institutions are negatively affecting the minds, words and deeds of the younger generation in Bharat. Mobile phones have now reached the hands of children as well. There is little to no control over what is being shown there and what our children are watching. The content is so disgusting that even mentioning it would be a violation of decency. There seems to be an urgent need for legal monitoring over advertisements and perverted visual content in our homes and society. The drug addiction spreading like wildfire among the young generation is also hollowing the society from within. Values that lead to virtuousness will have to be revived”, he said.
Citing the rape incident at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital as a particularly shameful one that tarnished the entire society, he said, “it is the result of the decay of values that in a country that practices “Maatrivat Paradaareshu”, women are facing incidents like rape in many places. The incident in Kolkata’s R. G. Kar Hospital is one of the most shameful incident that has tarnished the entire society. The whole society stood with the doctors protesting and demanding prompt and sensitive action. But even after such a heinous crime, the despicable efforts made by some people to protect the criminals show how the nexus of crime, politics and poisonous culture is ruining us”.
“Our view towards women – “Maatrivat Paradaareshu” – is our value tradition that has been passed on for generations. Not being aware or neglecting or despising such values in families and in the media from which the society is getting entertainment as well as is being automatically educated, is proving very costly. We will have to revive the system of enlightening these traditional values through family, society and media”, he further said.
Dr Bhagwat also warned against the divisive elements attempting to break society by creating conflicts based on caste, language, and region. “We can see the erosion of values and the tactics of divisive elements to break the society across Bharat today. There is an attempt to create conflict by creating separation on the basis of caste, language, province etc. Arrangements are being made so that the society, entangled in petty selfishness and small identities, does not understand the all-consuming crisis looming over their heads until it is too late. Due to this, today Punjab, Jammu-Kashmir, Ladakh on the north-western border of the country; Kerala, Tamil Nadu on the sea border; and the entire Purvanchal from Bihar to Manipur are disturbed. All the situations mentioned earlier in this speech are present in all these states as well”.
He further said that, “There is a sudden increase in the incidents in the country that incite fanaticism without any reason. There may be dissatisfaction in the mind about the situation or policies, but there are democratic ways to express it and oppose them. Instead of following these ways, resorting to violence, attacking a particular section of the society, resorting to violence without reason, trying to create fear, is hooliganism. The attempts to incite this or doing it in a planned manner, has been called as ‘Grammar of Anarchy’ by revered Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. Incidents of unprovoked massive stone pelting on the processions of Shri Ganesh Visarjan and the tense situation that followed are examples of the same grammar that happened during the recent Ganeshotsava. It is the job of the administration to prevent such incidents from happening, and to control and punish the culprits immediately. But until they arrive, the society has to protect itself and its property along with the lives of the loved ones. Hence, there is a need for the society to always remain fully alert and prepared and to identify these evil tendencies and those who support them”.
He urged the Hindu society to take up the greater responsibility of making Bharat united, peaceful, prosperous, and strong. “The above description of the situation is not meant to scare, intimidate or incite fighting. We all are experiencing the existence of such a situation. It is everyone’s wish and duty to make this country united, happy, peaceful, prosperous and strong. The Hindu society has a greater responsibility in this. Therefore, a specific type of situation of the society, alertness and collective efforts in a particular direction are required. When the society wakes up on its own, writes its destiny with its own efforts, then great men, organisations, institutions, administration, government etc. all help. In a healthy state of the body, deterioration arrives first, then diseases surround it. There is a famous saying that even God does not care about the weak”, he said.
