RSS supports use of mother tongue as mode of education

ATTACKS 'FORCES' CHALLENGING NATIONAL UNITY

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BENGALURU: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) prefers the mother tongue to be a mode of education and day-to-day communication, Sangh's joint general secretary C R Mukunda said on Friday amid a raging row on the Hindi language and described the debate over delimitation "politically motivated".

The RSS leader also launched a veiled attack against DMK, which has been opposing the three-language formula under the National Education Policy, saying forces challenging national unity were a "matter of worry".

Addressing a press conference on the RSS' top decision-making body —Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) three-day meeting that began here on Friday, Mukunda said "intense discussions on some of the contemporary and burning issues", including Manipur situation and attempts to create the 'North-South divide' in the country, will be held.

The meeting was inaugurated by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. When asked about the three-language row, Mukunda said the Sangh would not pass any resolution and maintained that the organisation prefers the mother tongue to be a mode of education and day-to-day communication.