Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Keshav Kunj, Jhandewala, D.B. Marg,
New Delhi 110055
Tel. (0091-11) 3670365, 3615854
Fax: 3517722
Email: vishwav@vsnl.com
Statement by Shri Mohan Bhagwat,
General Secretary, R.S.S
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 Basand police
station in South 24 Pargana district of West Bengal. The RSS workers had
gone there to arrange a meeting of the RSS. When they reached the house
of one Answer Hussain Sardar, they were fired at point blank, killing four
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 tails 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 ideologies,
has no place in any constitutional democratic policy.
(M. G. Vaidya)
Spokesperson for RSS
