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| Current Gujarat | | • Rashtriya Sewa Bharati : Bringing about positive attitudinal change |
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It was election time. High pitch election fever was everywhere. Money was profusely distributed throughout that constituency. Election agents of a candidate belonging to a particular political party arrived at Mangaleshwari Nagar, a remote village in East Coast Road of Ramanathapuram district in Tamil Nadu, with boxes of fresh currency notes of 500 and 1,000 denominations to distribute among people of this particular village. One currency note was available for each voter to get his support. But, to those agents’ surprise, the people of this village categorically refused to accept money from them.
“Let the Grama Sevika of Sewa Bharati come, you speak to her”, was the reply from the people of the village.
Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal
Kanyakumari, 5-6 July 2003
Resolution-1Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi
The ABKM reiterates its unqualified support to the just demand of the Hindu society for restoration of the holy shrines of Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi to them. Bhagwan Ram, Bhagwan Krishna and Bhagwan Shankar symbolise Bharat’s age-old civilisational, cultural and spiritual identity. Restoration of the pristine glory of these holy places is the bounden duty of independent Bharat.
History bears testimony to the wanton vandalism of invading Islamic hordes, which had resulted in the destruction of thousands of Hindu holy places and construction of many Muslim monuments all over the country. That the intention of the invaders was to leave a permanent mark of their victory over this land and pronounce the supremacy of their faith is clear from the fact that all these monuments of infamy stand either on the destroyed holy sites or cheek to jaw with Hindu holy places, reminding people of this country at every day-break about their subjugation by the foreign invaders for centuries. No self-respecting nation would tolerate such symbols of dishonour.
It is not out of place here to remind the countrymen about the restoration of the glory of Somnath immediately after independence. On the same lines, restoration of three other important holy places – Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi – should also be done.
The ABKM also reminds countrymen that the Ayodhya issue is not a Hindu-Muslim dispute. The Ayodhya movement symbolises the manifestation of the yearning of a national culture for self-respect and honour. Muslims of Bharat are also inheritors of this national culture and thus should become torchbearers of its honour and glory along with other countrymen instead of becoming flag-holders of invaders.
Several efforts are underway for finding a solution to this issue through negotiations. The ABKM welcomes all such well-meaning efforts that accommodate the views of the leaders of the Ram Janm Bhumi movement like the VHP & Hindu saints who have been in the forefront making countless sacrifices. The ABKM calls upon the Muslim leadership to seize the historic opportunity and give up their claim over the sites at Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi so as to pave way for creation of mutual goodwill and respect between Hindus and Muslims forever. The Muslim leadership and other sections involved in this process should keep it always in mind that negotiations should not mean bargain. It is the right and duty of every citizen of independent Bharat to obliterate all the symbols of slavery.
However, if the Muslim leadership fails to understand the intensity of the sentiments of our countrymen and continues with its obdurate and obscurantist attitude, the ABKM calls upon the Government to explore the possibility of a legislative option to resolve this issue in the interest of national unity and communal harmony.
The ABKM takes note of the efforts by certain vested interests to create a rift in the Hindu movement by spreading untruths and half-truths and cautions all the organisations to be wary of those elements. Nothing should be done by way of words or deeds that would directly or indirectly lead to division in the Hindu ranks.
The ABKM calls upon the patriotic people of our country to raise their voice in favour of Bharat’s self-respect and honour so that leadership of the country would strive for restoration of the same, an important step towards which would be restoration of Hindu holy places of Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi.
Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal, Kanyakumari, 5-6 July 2003
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