A controversy broke out between the Ministry of Culture about paying tribute to Madhav Sadashiv Rao Golwalkar, an ideologue of the National Voluntary Union. Several opposition leaders have opposed the move by the central ministry, saying Golwalkar has conflicting views on Muslims. There has been no official statement from the ministry on the matter so far, but a ministry official says this is not the first time Golwalkar is being honored. Me. Golwalkar is the second Sarsanchalak of the RSS. At the time of India’s independence, he was in charge of the Sangha and remembers him as a thinker of the Sangha.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor attacked the Culture Ministry’s move, saying: “The Ministry of Culture considers Golwalkar as a great thinker and scholar. Golwalkar was head of the RSS for three decades. The Government of India has praised the man who insulted the Indian National Flag and the Constitution. Also, Shashi Tharoor quotes a passage in Golwalkar’s book ‘Bunch of Thoughts’, in which Golwalkar wrote ‘Hindustan is a country of Hindus’. In 1939, one year before the death of RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, Golwalkar Sangha was in charge. After Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in 1949, he went to jail under the government’s action against the Sangh.
There was controversy over the name of MS Golwalkar when the central government named the campus of Rajiv Gandhi Biotechnology Center in Kerala last year. Apart from Shashi Tharoor, another Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said, “This person is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s choice for the Ministry of Culture. The same person who told Parliament that there is nothing wrong with worshiping Nathuram Godse. “Leftist activist Kavita Krishnan attacked the post of ministry and quoted a line from Golwalkar’s book,” For Golwalkar, Hindu is like a nation ” Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Dalit, OBC, feminist, Tamil, Kannada, Manipuri etc resemble communalism and separatism. ‘
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Meanwhile, BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha lauded the move by the Ministry of Culture. Appreciating the ministry, he said, “The Ministry of Culture has carried forward the inclusive tradition by remembering Golwalkar, under which people who have helped India’s history, culture, society and freedom movement are remembered.” Moreover, when attacking Tharoor, people like Rakesh Sinha said that he grew up reading Gandhi-Nehru-centric history. He must move beyond the field. He said that MS Golwalkar’s writing was misinterpreted.
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