By The Hindu Bureau
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh wants to uproot the words secularism, socialism and egalitarian society from Indian Constitution as the outfit aims to create an unequal, caste-based and religiously divided society with the 鈥榰pper caste鈥 ruling the roost, Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M. Appavu has said.
During an informal chat with reporters, Mr. Appavu, after inaugurating an urban health centre at Chidambara Nagar near Thatchanallur here on Thursday, said the RSS had never accepted the ideas of secularism, socialism and egalitarian society and always advocated for a caste-based and religiously divided society with the 鈥榰pper caste鈥 at the top of the administration.. Hence, RSS leaders were repeatedly stressing that the words secularism and socialism be removed from the Indian Constitution.
鈥淲hile the Indian Constitution vociferously supports secularism, socialism and egalitarian society, the RSS works overtime to uproot it from the Constitution as this outfit sees these high ideals as the stumbling block for achieving its dream of creating caste-based, unequal and religiously divided society. Hence the Union Government is travelling towards this direction to realise its masters鈥 dream, which is not good for the country鈥檚 integrity and prosperity. Having realised this wickedness, the people of Tamil Nadu will never accept these evil designs,鈥 Mr. Appavu said.
The Speaker also said the RSS and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were keen on the obliteration of English, the country鈥檚 link language, by initially pushing forward Hindi and then replacing Hindi with Sanskrit later. 鈥淚t will also not be possible in Tamil Nadu.鈥
Terming the recent custodial death in Sivaganga district as 鈥榰npardonable鈥, Mr. Appavu said the Chief Minister had ensured the registration of a case against five policemen and their arrest since the brutal incident was against law and the people. 鈥淭he Chief Minister even went on to apologise to the family of the deceased, which shows his respect for high values.鈥
Asked about the information that Ajith was brutally thrashed on the instruction from an IAS officer, Mr. Appavu said: 鈥淭he probe is on to bring out the truth. If an IAS officer is found to be involved in this incident, the Chief Minister will not spare the officer also鈥.
On the ongoing internal squabbles in the PMK, the Speaker said they (party founder S. Ramadoss and his son Anbumani Ramadoss) would sort it out.