Respect Bharat, respect tradition, pray to maa Shakti an unparalleled tradition of divinity in the feminine form. Modernity is ok, but dharma is inviolate What Vishwamitra said in Rigveda is a reference to Bharatam: brahmedam rakshati bharatam janam, 'this mantra will protect people of Bharatam'. Let us cherish this identity.
Kalyan
It was in answer to a question in a Q&A session at Silchar on 31 December 2012.
Please see what Pu.Sarsanghachalak actually said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGu8nNLfpyE&feature=youtu.be
Bhagwat’s remark on rape has to be understood in entirety: BJP
By NitiCentral Staff on January 4, 2013
Reacting to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comment that rapes happen in cities, not villages, BJP on Friday put up a brave defence saying the statement should be seen in the proper context and he was referring to India’s culture, tradition and value system.
“The present controversy relating to certain comments of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is totally uncalled for and unnecessary. His comments are required to be seen and understood in entirety. He was referring to India’s sanskar, tradition and value system where respect for women occupies a pride of place,” BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
Bhagwat had courted controversy when he said in Silchar on Thursday that crimes against women happen in India and not in Bharat. He had said that women living in cities follow a western lifestyle which leads to crimes against them. Backing Bhagwat, Prasad said the RSS chief had also underlined the need for meting out stringent sentences to the guilty.”At the same time, he also demanded that strong punishment should be given to those who are offenders in relation to crimes against women and that laws should be strengthened to even give capital punishment,” Prasad said.
Bhagwat had claimed that the incidents of rape were the result of adoption of western culture in society as a whole and that erosion of traditional Indian values were more pronounced in urban areas. “Crimes against women happening in urban India are shameful. It is a dangerous trend. But such crimes won’t happen in Bharat or the rural areas of the country. You go to villages and forests of the country and there will be no such incidents of gang rape or sex crimes,” he said at a meeting in Silchar in Assam recently.
“Where ‘Bharat’ becomes ‘India’ with the influence of Western culture, these type of incidents happen. The actual Indian values and culture should be established at every stratum of society where women are treated as ‘mother’,” he added.
BJP maintained that empowerment of women, and givingthem respect and security form the core of RSS ideology. “There is extraordinary work and achievement made in various RSS-related organisations like Rashtriya Sevika Samiti, Vanvasi Kalyan Kendra, Vidya Bharti and other allied organisations which bear ample testimony to the same,” Prasad said.
RSS leader Ram Madhav had defended Bhagwat on the same lines and said it should be seen in the proper perspective.He said the RSS chief’s statement should be taken in proper perspective.”He has condemned the heinous crime of assaulting women, rape against women and he said it is an utterly wrong thing and that people who indulge in such things must be punished,” he added. “All that he said is that in Indian tradition we have great respect for women and we should learn to uphold this tradition. If one goes away from this tradition it will result in rise of crime against women,” Madhav said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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