AMN / KOLKATA
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat today said that Sangh is not against anyone but only trying to unite Hindu community.
Addressing the RSS programme at Brigade Parade Ground in the city today, Mr Bhagat said, the RSS not working against anyone but only working to unite and strengthen the Hindu community and for its empowerment.
“On the occasion of Makar Sankranti, I must say we are not working against anyone but only working to unite Hindu community for empowerment,” he said.
“Can anyone stop us? No one can stop us. We have to work. We have and we will keep on doing it. Increase activism, it doesn’t increase from preaching,” he said in his message on Makar Sankranti.
Bhagwat’s speech comes at a time when the Centre and state government are at loggerheads over demonetization.
Amid a raging controversy, a single-judge bench of Calcutta High Court yesterday allowed the RSS to hold a rally at the city’s sprawling Brigade Parade Ground.
The court initiated contempt proceedings against commissioner Rajeev Kumar on the ground that the joint commissioner, not he, had communicated to the RSS the police’s decision not to allow the rally following a directive of the court on Tuesday.
Passing the order yesterday, Justice Joymalya Bagchi said: “They cannot have more than 4,000 participants at the rally. The RSS will have to submit to the court and Calcutta police a list of the members, along with their addresses, who will attend the rally. Each participant will have to carry (his or her) identity card and invitation card…. The police will allow entry only after verification of the documents.”