Mumbai: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh slammed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat for his controversial remark that India is a Hindu nation and Hindutva is its identity.
Telling RSS to stop “fooling innocent people by using religion in politics”, Singh said he is proud of “Sanatan Dharma and its tolerance towards others. In a series of tweets on microblogging website Twitter the Congress leader posted this morning, Singh asked if the word Hindu or Hindutatva figures in any of religious scripture.
Stoking yet another controversy, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had on Sunday said India is a Hindu nation and Hindutva is its identity. Hindustan is a Hindu nation…Hindutva is the identity of our nation and it (Hinduism) can incorporate others (religions) in itself,” he said.
Last week, Bhagwat had said in Cuttack, “The cultural identity of all Indians is Hindutva and the present inhabitants of the country are descendants of this great culture.”
“If inhabitants of England are English, Germany are Germans and USA are Americans then why all inhabitants of Hindustan are not known as Hindus,” he had posed.
Bhagwat was in Mumbai on Sunday on the occasion of Krishna Janamashtami to attend the inauguration programme of the golden jubilee celebrations of the VHP that was founded in Mumbai on August 29-30, 1964.
Bureau Report
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