RSS CAUTIONS AGAINST USING CASTE CENSUS AS ELECTION TOOL

Samanvay Baithak identifies 'five fronts' on the issue of rape-murder of a doctor at Kolkata hospital

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA

The much-followed three-day Akhil Bharatiya Samanvay Baithak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that began in Kerala’s Palakkad on Saturday ended on Monday with the influential body, seen as the soul of the BJP, taking up important issues like the horrific rape and murder of a female doctor in Kolkatta, the natural tragedy at Wayanad, caste related developments, the forcible removal of Prime Minister Sheik Hasina from Bangladesh and the atrocities against minorities and Hindus apart from religious conversion in Tamil Nadu.

The RSS also stated that it was not against caste census but it should not be used as a political tool and that it was concerned about the unity and the cohesion within the society on caste related issues.

Similarly, it said that it has always supported reservation provided by the Constitution and while referring to the recent Supreme Court judgment that stated that states have a right to sub-classify Scheduled Castes notified in the Presidential List with an objective to provide them ”more” preferential treatment in public, the RSS said that if anything has to done it should only be done through ‘consensus’ while keeping the interests and the sentiments of the people at the fore.