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NEW DELHI, DEC 4: Senior RSS leaders today met Lok Sabha Speaker G.M.C. Balayogi as part of the mass-awareness campaign launched by their organisation to celebrate its 75th birth anniversary.
A three-member delegation led by “prant sanghchalak” Satyanarain Bansal met the Speaker in his chambers at Parliament House this evening. The meeting, which lasted 40 minutes, saw the RSS leaders explaining their position on issues such as Hindutva, swadeshi and foreign policy.
While lauding the RSS for its relief work in the aftermath of natural calamities, Balayogi sought to know the measures taken by the organisation to allay the fears of the minorities. He also wanted to know how had the RSS acquired its anti-minority image.
Bansal reportedly told the Speaker that the RSS believed in the philosophy of Hindutva, but it had nothing to do with religion. “We also informed him about the misinformation campaign launched against us by the Congress in order to garner the votes of the minorities,” Delhi Prant Prachar Pramukh Kishore Kant, who was part of the delegation, told The Indian Express. The third member of the delegation was zonal secretary Ramesh Prakash.
The Speaker also sought know about the RSS stand on the economic and foreign policies. “We told him that even though we believe in swadeshi, we are not against globalisation per se. But it should not be at the cost of employment for the poor,” Kant said, adding: “We also pointed out that we’re completely opposed to the entry of MNCs in the consumer goods sector.”
As regards foreign policy, the RSS, the delegation told Balayogi, believes in the policy of “live and let live”.
