The administration in Madhya Pradesh, India is in the central government’s control after the BJ.P. Government was dismissed in December in the wake of Ayodhya developments. There is reportedly a move to sack vice-chancellors of the various universities in that state belonging to the R.S.S. There are 14 such Universities and as many as eight are headed by R.S, S. men. In U.P., Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh which were ruled by B.J.P. the situation is no different.
The RS.S. brought in its grip all educational institutions to poison the minds of the younger generation against India’s minorities and to corrupt and communalize history and culture of the land. But the government institutions in India are not alone in being brought under the R.S.S. shadow. For instance, one of the Universities in Madhya Pradesh, known as Makhan Lal University cum Institute for Journalism at Bhopal, is headed by one R.S.Sharma who earlier was editor of Dainak Tribune, a Chandigarh daily, belonging to the Tribune Trust. And, Sharma’s was not an isolated instance of the Chandigarh based newspaper group being controlled by the R.S.S. What really brought Sharma all the way to Chandigarh to be appointed as The Tribune group’s edit or a few years ago? It was the missing link between the R.S.S. and the Congress (I) that The Tribune Trust provides. There: are numerous other journalists belonging to the R.S.S. still Serving The Tribune. The fact really is that most Indian newspapers are controlled either by the R.S,S. men or Congress(I) men. No wonder India’s Hindu fundamentalism has an ever obliging forum in India’s print media. No wonder again, that Whenever Muslims or Sikhs or Christians are butchered. the Indian media dubs the events as “riots” and carefully conceals the identity of the Victims. No distinction can be made between an R.S.S:man and 4 Congress(1) man. One may be forthright but tactless in his statements and the other clever and tactful. What is important is that the most vital wing of the Indian state the Security forces are committed Hindu fundamentalist. ‘Thus the Madhya Pradesh Campaign does not touch the core of the Indian problem.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 5, 1993
