Guwahati: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s recent annual meeting in Bangalore resolved to stand with the Hindus and other minorities in the Muslim majority Bangladesh. Moreover the nationalist organisation urged the international community to intervene with the current regime in Dhaka to ensure the safety and security of religious minorities in the south Asian nation. The RSS’s Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha 2025 expressed its serious concern on the unabated and planned violence, injustice and oppression faced by the Hindus at the hands of radical Islamist elements and termed it a fit case of human rights violation.
Addressing a press meet at Keshavdham in the city, RSS Uttar Asom Pranta’s Sanghachalak Dr Bhupesh Sarma, Karyabah Khagen Saikia and Prachar Pramukh Kishor Shivam, added that during the recent regime change of Bangladesh, several incidents of attacks on maths, temples, Durgapuja pandals and educational institutions, desecration of deities, barbaric killings, looting of properties, abduction and molestation of women and forcible conversions were reported. The ABPS also highlighted the continuous decline of the Hindu population in Bangladesh (from 22% in 1951 to just 7.95% today) asserting that it only reflects the severity of the perennial crisis.
The level of organized violence and the government’s passive response in the last few months was alarming, but the administration continues denying the religious angle of these incidents. The RSS meeting also raised concerns over the rising anti-Bharat rhetoric in Bangladesh, which threatens to strain the historically deep-rooted ties between the two nations. Bharat and its neighboring countries share a common cultural and historical heritage, and any form of communal discord in one part of the region affects the entire subcontinent. Finally the Sangh called upon international organizations to take serious note of these inhumane acts and pressurize Dhaka to take concrete steps to halt violence against Hindus and other minorities.
Mentionable is that since time immemorial, the Hindu society has been immersed in a very long and incredible journey to accomplish the great mission of achieving human unity and universal wellbeing. With the blessings and efforts of Saints, Seers and great personalities, including glorious women, Bharat has been able to keep marching ahead despite several upheavals.
In 1925, Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar initiated the RSS to eradicate the weaknesses that had crept into India’s national life over the period of time and to take Bharat to the pinnacle of glory (Paramvaibhav) as an organized, virtuous and a powerful Rashtra. Sowing seeds of Sangh work, Dr Hedgewar evolved a unique man-making methodology in the form of daily Shakha, which turned into selfless penance for rebuilding the nation in tune with our eternal traditional values and ethos.
This initiative had spread nationwide during Dr Hedgewar’s lifetime itself. The process of building contemporary time consistent systems in various walks of national life, in the light of eternal philosophy started under the visionary leadership of the second Sarsanghachalak Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar.
In this journey of hundred years, with the values imbued in daily-shakha, Sangh has earned the unwavering trust and affection of Society. During this period, Swayamsevaks have strived to carry everyone along with the strength of love and affection, rising above honours and insults, likes and dislikes. Bharat being an ancient culture with rich traditions has the experiential wisdom to create a harmonious world. The Sangh believes that Hindu society will be able to fulfil its global responsibility effectively only on the basis of an organised and collective life, full of self-confidence founded on Dharma.
