Statement by Sarkaryawah:

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Publication: Shree Vishwa Niketan
Date: February 16, 2001
 
Following statement was issued by Ma. Mohan Bhagwat on February 15th 2001: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh takes a very serious view of the cold blooded murder of four of its workers on Saturday, 10th February 2001, at Sonakhali village under Basanti police station in South 24 Pargana district of West Bengal. Five RSS workers had gone there to arrange a meeting of the RSS. When they reached the house of one Anwar Hussain Sardar, they were fired at point blank, killing 4 of them on the spot. One worker, named Bikarna Naskar, somehow was able to escape and reached the RSS office which immediately informed the Police about the ghastly crime. But the Police reached the place five hours late. Anwar Hussain, who is a notorious criminal of that area and also an activist of the ruling Left Front. has not been arrested so far. This gory incident fits in the pattern of the Left Rule in West Bengal, which ideologically may glorify violence and hence may not feel any qualms about employing murder as a policy of statecraft. But the Government at the Centre should not be a silent spectator of this lawlessness in that state. The RSS strongly condemns this gruesome murder of its workers and calls upon the Central Government to see that the rule of Law is established in that state. It should be appreciated by, all that violence, which may be a characteristic of some Fascist type of ideologies, has no place in any constitutional democratic polity."
 

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