RSS body ‘lauds’ Christian missionaries

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RSS body `lauds' missionaries

HT Correspondent

(Nagpur, September 23)

 

VIDYA BHARATI, one of the important organisations of the RSS, has

finally recognised the "zeal of the Christian missionaries to devote

their selfless services in an unfriendly atmosphere".

 

Vidya Bharati, which runs more than 16,000 schools with 20 lakh

students on the rolls around the country with the aim of "developing

a nation of proud Hindus", has always been critical of the style of

working of the Christian missionaries. But now they have called upon

their students to learn from their spirit and faith "so that the

enemies in the clashes of civilisation could be defeated".

 

Lajjaram Tomar, the head of Vidya Bharati, while addressing the

National Executive of the organisation at Smriti Mandir in

Reshimbagh, appreciated the sacrifices made by the missionaries. He

requested the members to learn from them instead of criticising them

unnecessarily.

 

Criticising the present education system, he said that the aim of the

organisation was to formulate a National Education Policy, which

could be presented before the government with the hope that it would

be adopted in practice.

 

"Its sole purpose would be to create a generation of Hindus", he

said.

 

Mr Tomar appreciated the steps taken by the Union HRD Minister, Dr

Murli Manohar Joshi for "improving the education system and

correcting the history by rewriting it".

 

He said that the organisations like NCERT, ICHR and ICSSR had started

a campaign against RSS but the Union Minister has succeeded in

marginalising them