Bengal not Gujarat, Buddha tells RSS

didn’t mince words. ‘‘They are unwanted guests in this state,’’ he said, adding: ‘‘Bengal will remain Bengal. The Gujarat line will not work here.’’ This is being seen in political circles as as a bid to blunt Togadiya’s message to VHP members in Bengal to avenge the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh on the lines of Gujarat.

Togadiya, on the other hand, said at the rally at Shahid Minar maidan that Marxism is the ‘‘shortest dharma’’ to survive just for 70 years. The Marx putras are seeing danger wherever there is revival of Hindutva as they are fully aware that a Hindu awakening will bring an end to their rule.

Sudarshan reminded the gathering that ‘‘Marxists were the first to support the idea of independent Pakistan for Muslims in 1941 and they were the ones who never accused China of attacking India in 1961. They are the ones who will not blame China for the genocide they committed in crushing a democratic movement by students,’’ he said. It’s quite natural that such a party will see Hindutva as a threat, he said. According to Sudarshan, the other curse free India had to bear was Pandit Nehru becoming PM. ‘‘Everyone knows he was the last Englishman to rule India,’’ he said, observing that western influences continue to dominate Hindu tradition because of these ‘‘Macaulay putras’’.

He accused Jesuits and foreign missionaries of trying to convert people to Roman Catholicism. ‘‘Our Constitution guarantees freedom to worship any religion, it does not grant the freedom to convert,’’ he said. ‘‘There will be violence by Hindus if such attempts are detected anywhere in India,’’ he warned.