RSS fascist, says Christian Council

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, OCT 19. The six-million strong All India Christian Council today asked the people, the minorities and the Hindus to reject the RSS' ``divisive call for a nationalism based on religion'' which went against the Constitution. It also asked the allies of the BJP in the NDA Government to ``wake up'' and ``take a stand''as the RSS had unfolded its future plan.

The Council, in a statement released here and in Hyderabad, described the RSS as a ``fascist organisation'' and warned that the Sangh Parivar's ``ideology of hate'' had again surfaced. The RSS was trying to propagate a false and dangerous idea that it holds a monopoly on patriotism. Giving a firm response to the RSS call for Indianisation of the church, it said that ``Indian Christians of all denominations have always been Indians for 2000 years.''

The two-page statement was issued by Dr. Joseph D' Souza, president of the Council, Mr John Dayal, secretary general, Dr. G. Samuel, executive secretary of Baptist churches, Mr. D. Mohan of the Assemblies of God in Chennai, and Mr. David Simeon, president of the Karnataka Federation of Christian Organisations. They claimed that they represented 6 million Indian Christians.

By talking about Hindu patriotism, Muslim patriotism and Christian patriotism within the Indian nation, the RSS chief, Mr. K. S. Sudershan, at the recent camp in Agra was only reiterating the ideology of RSS founders, Hedgewar and Golwalkar, who did not accept minorities as equal citizens to Hindus, the statement said.

Strongly denouncing the RSS and its affiliates whose coffers ``were filled with foreign money'' and who had established their own structure and financial base in the United States, the Council said that it was time the NDA allies ``woke up'' and ``took action.''

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