NEW DELHI: Nothing that there has been a “massive Hindu up~ surge” all over the country, including the southern states of Kamataka and Andhra Pradesh, in the wake of the December 6 happenings, the Sangh parivar has drawn up an action plan for the next two months to consolidate the gains.
A secret conclave of the parivar, held somewhere in western India during the week, reviewed the sociopolitical situation in the country. Top leaders of the banned Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, including H.V.Seshadri, Prof Rajendra Singh and K.S.Sudersan, Ashok Singhal of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Dattopant Thengdi of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and S.S.Bhandari of the Bharatiya Janata Party were prominent among those who participated in the threeday conclave.
The leaders assembled at the conclave are learned to haye expressed satisfaction over the fact that Hindu religious leaders associated with the Ayodhya movement had fallen in line with the parivar on sensitive issues like respect for the Constitution, the need to consolidate Hindu unity by winning over Dalits and tribals and to concentrate, at least for the time being, on Ayodhya rather than demand the “liberation” of temples at Mathura and Varahasi. The leaders expressed concern at the tension building at Varanasi over the issue. Concerted efforts should be made to defuse the situation, it was fell.
The question of resuming kar seva at Ayodhya is also learned to have come up for discussion. The consensus was that the parivar should wait for the Supreme Court’s opinion on the Presidential reference made to the apex court on Ayodhya before taking any precipitate action. Chances are that a decision in this regard would be Laken after completing the present phase of the “action plan.”
Prof Singh said though the Sangh had suspended the imposition of the ban, its infrastructure was by and large intact. “Our organizational machine is well oiled and we are in constant touch with swayamsevaks. Our cadres are involved in public campaigns,” he added.
Asked what was the short term aim of the parivar, the Sangh leader said for the present, efforts were being directed towards the restoration of popular governments in UP, MP, Rajasthan and Himachal. He observed that the situation in Maharashtra and Gujarat calls for fresh elections. He was confident that non BJP parties would suffer big reverses in these elections.
Prof Singh said the sense of fear and isolation which had grouped the Muslim community must be removed, A former Union minister, Arif Mohammed Khan, he recalled, had sought an assurance from him in this regard. The BIP has taken up the task in right carnest as the RSS has been banned, he said, referring to recent statements made by Advani.
“Muslims have been betrayed by fundamentalist leaders,” he said. ‘The community would do well to disown them and throw up a new leadership.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 5, 1993
