Mohan Bhagwat, RSS chief on Sunday said that all Indians are the same and that those involved in the activity of lynching are against Hindutva. He further urged Muslims not to get "trapped in the cycle of fear" that Islam is in danger in India.
Addressing a gathering organised by the Muslim Rashtriya Manch, RSS’s minority wing, in Ghaziabad on the theme ''Hindustani First, Hindustan First'', Bhagwat said, “If a Hindu says that no Muslim should live here, then the person is not Hindu. Cow is a holy animal but the people who are lynching others are going against Hindutva. Law should take it's against them without any partiality.” Though at times, some false cases of lynching have been registered against people, he said.
He further added that people cannot be differentiated based on how they worship.
"Don't get trapped in the cycle of fear that Islam is in danger in India," said Mr Bhagwat addressing the event.
Stressing that the development of India is not possible without unity, Bhagwat said that the basis of unity should be nationalism and the glory of ancestors.
Dialogue is the only solution to the conflict between Hindu-Muslim and not discord, he said, adding, “Hindu-Muslim unity is misleading as they are not different, but one. DNA of all Indians are the same, irrespective of religion.”
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“We are in a democracy. There cannot be a dominance of Hindus or Muslims. There can only be the dominance of Indians.”
He further steed the differences of issues is present amongst Hindus and Muslims, however, that does not make them part of different societies.
Politics cannot unite people rather it only divides, he said, urging Muslims to not get “trapped in the cycle of fear that Islam is in danger in India”.
He reminded that India’s constitution is a testimony that minorities were never in danger n the country.
“Even if a section from the majority community shows aggression against a minority, its opposition comes from within the majority community. If I give an aggressive and angry speech, the Hindu will not support me,” said Mr Bhagwat.
Addressing the event, Mr Bhaagwat asked the audience to recall the rich heritage of accommodation and tolerance India has and said the country had enough resources for people that they never felt the need to leave and go anywhere else as this nation accepted whoever came here.
At the beginning of the speech, Bhagwat said he was attending the event neither for an image makeover nor for vote bank politics.
Sangh is neither in politics nor does it bother about maintaining an image, he affirmed.
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“It keeps doing its work to strengthen the nation and for the welfare of all in society,” Bhagwat added.