RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat speaking at a Sangh training camp in Mathura on Friday reiterated that there should not be any doubt that each person residing in India, Bangladesh or Pakistan are part of the Hindu nation.
“Those who are living in the Indian subcontinent belong to the Hindu nation. They may have different citizenships but their nationality is Hindu,” he said.
Bhagwat said, “Bharat ek Hindu rashtra hai. We shouldn’t have any doubt about it. And we need to stick to this belief. We can change ourselves in other areas. But the belief that India is a Hindu nation cannot be discarded at any cost.”
To establish his point, he took a leaf out of the history book: “The Arabs used to pronounce ‘Sa’ as ‘Ha’. So they would call us Hindu because there was river Sindhu in our country. It was in the area where Pakistan was carved out in 1947. In 1971, Bangladesh was carved out of Pakistan. This was the reason that the citizenship of residents of those areas changed. But they didn’t leave their houses or their nation. This is why I say that their nationality remains the same,” he said.
Accodring to Bhagwat believe, some people are ignorant and they claim that they are Muslims or Christians. “The ancient name of this part of the land is Hindustan. Obviously whosoever is living here are Hindus,” he further said.
He called upon the Sangh cadres to take hold of the opportunity to spread the ideology of the organisation by increasing the reach of their shakhas.