Set up swadeshi church: RSS

NAGPUR, OCT. 7. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief, Mr. K. C. Sudarshan, today said a majority of the Christians were patriotic and asked them to disassociate themselves from the stranglehold of foreign churches by setting up a ``swadeshi church''.

Mr. Sudarshan, addressing an annual Vijayadashmi gathering here, launched a scathing attack on foreign churches and accused them of hatching a political conspiracy to destabilise the nation.

``Why are these foreign churches allowed to carry on their activities on our soil,'' he asked, and urged the Christians to set up a swadeshi church on the lines of the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Marthoma Church of Kerala.

Mr. Sudarshan accused the Baptist Church of playing havoc in Tripura where, he alleged, Hindus were driven out and tribals harassed in the name of Christianity.

The Sangh was being projected as anti-Christian and anti-Islamic in the world, he said, adding none of the Hindu organisations was found guilty of criminal assault on a nun in Jhabua (Madhya Pradesh), or the killing of an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two sons in Orissa, or the attack on missionary schools in Agra.

On the contrary, a terrorist outfit such as the Deendar Anjuman was allegedly behind the bomb blasts in churches in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa, he said.

The RSS chief urged the Muslims to keep vigil on the anti- national activities of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and give information about these to authorities.

He said the ISI was indulging in bomb blasts, smuggling of arms and transporting RDX in the country. He called for complete ``Indianisation of Islam'' in the country and urged the Muslims to join the cultural mainstream.

- PTI

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