RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat justifies BEEF eating for Social Harmony.

In Sanatan season, RSS chief flags ‘2000 yrs’ of caste discrimination: ‘we didn’t bother when they lived like animals.’

‘Must be prepared to suffer for 200 years… RSS swayamsevaks ready to eat even food tinged with cow meat for the sake of assimilation towards social harmony,’ says RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

Dhirendra Krishna Singh | HENB | New Delhi | Sept 8, 2023:: When Ram Madhav said  ‘Beef Has Nothing To do with Religion,Its a lifestyle choice’ We knew the rest was coming as Rashtriya Swaymsevak Sangha (RSS) leader Mohan Bhagwat  justified Beef eating for social harmony. They do sure live up to Sita Ram Goels memorable quote  “The RSS is the biggest collection of duffers that ever came together in world history” which we realise within 20 seconds speech from the master of hegemony.

one of his most unequivocal endorsements for reservation, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that caste discrimination has a history of 2000 years during which “we didn’t bother,” even when “unka jeena pashu samaan ho gaya” (the lives of those from backward castes became like that of animals). As retributive justice, he said, people must be prepared to suffer for even 200 years for the benefit of those who have suffered for so long.

Addressing a gathering of students at the Agrasen Chhatravas (hostel) in Nagpur, Maharashtra, Bhagwat also suggested that RSS workers would have no qualms eating even cow meat if that ensured assimilation of the deprived classes into the larger Hindu fold.

Earlier, the chief of RSS Chief  also advocated the LGBTQ rights in an interviews in Organiser & Panchjanya giving the false reference from Mahabrata of two brothers named in Hamsa and Dimbak engaged in Homosexuality. The matter was vehemently opposed by ‘Indian Speaks Daily’ YouTube Channel owner and Hindutva proponent Sandeep Deo giving reference of Vishnu Purana and Mahabharata both, to null the false claim of Bhagawat. The critics then called RSS as Rashtriya Samalaingik Sangha.

Advocating Social Justice and harmony has no harm if fact. But, for that reason advocating beef-eating for harmony among Hindus is an idiotic idea mysteriously implanted in the mind of Mohan Bhagwat.

Bhagwat’s statement in Nagpur on ocial harmony assumes significance coming against the backdrop of a controversy over DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin’s remarks against Sanatan Dharma. Udhayanidhi has argued that his call for “eradication” in respect of Sanatan Dharma was not an attack on Hindu religion but against what he flagged as its discriminatory and casteist structure.

In response to Udhayanidhi’s  vilification row of Sanatana, RSS advocates caste-less society for its goal of a unifying Hindu fold, and Bhagwat has been careful not to raise any questions regarding reservation since a 2015 setback, the articulation of caste as a problem afflicting society for “2,000 years,” or possibly requiring corrective measures for 200 years, is new.

 “Apne yahan jo aarakshan diya gaya hai… apne desh mein samajik vishamta ka itihaas raha hai. Aur humne apne hi samaj ke bandhuon ko samajik vyavastha ke tahat peechhe rakha. Unka jeena pashu samaan ho gaya to humne chinta nahin ki. Aur aisa kam se kam do hazaar varsh chala hi hai… Isiliye, jab tak woh bhedbhav hai, tab tak usko chaalu rehna chahiye. Samvidhan Samvat jitna aarakshan hai usko hum Sangh ke log poora samarthan dete hain (There has been a history of social inequality in our society. We kept our own people backward based on a social system. Even when their life became akin to animals, we didn’t bother. And this continued for at least 2,000 years. So as long as this discrimination exists, reservation must continue. The Sangh fully supports the constitutionally mandated reservation),” Bhagwat said, during a question-answer session, when a student asked how long reservations would continue.

On Wednesday, Bhagwat said that giving reservation was more a question of respect than political or economic power. He also said that this was not to be underlined through argument but with sensitivity.

“Aaj dikhta nahin hai, lekin woh bhedbhav aaj bhi hai. Samman ki baat hai. Kewal aarthik baraabari ki baat nahin hai, kewal rajneetik baraabari ki baat nahin hai. Samajik baraabari, samman ki baat hai. App isey tark se samjhoge to kabhi nahin samajh sakte. Ye mann ki baat hai, apnepan ki baat hai. Is samasya ka ilaaj kewal paraspar samvedna aur sadbhav hai. To agar sadbhav banaa kar in baton ko dekhen, nafa-nuksaan ka vichar na karein, apne logon ke liye, jinhone 2,000 saal kasht jhela, hum 200 saal kasht jhel lein to kya farak padta hai (You may not see it, but the discrimination exists. This is not a question of political and economic equality. Social equality is a matter of respect. You cannot understand this solely as a means of making an argument. This is a question of kinship, empathy. The only solution is mutual sensitivity and goodwill. For our own people, who have suffered for 2000 years, if we have to suffer for 200 years, we must not complain.)

Up to this line of thinking Bhagawat was acceptably right to his point with some objections, if not he did crossed his limit entering into the advocacy of beef-eating for social harmony.

Unfortunately, Bhagwat went on to narrate an anecdote of RSS swayamsevaks having no qualms eating cow meat at an inter-caste community feast to not offend the deprived classes.

Once a group of vegetarian swayamsevaks had agreed to a sahbhojan (an inter-caste feast), he said. But when they went, they found they had been served meat. Bhagwat said they started eating so as not to offend their hosts. To top it, a host said their food had been spiked with cow meat and now they would “rot in hell for 42 generations”.

 “So, an elderly among those eating said, ‘You see, for centuries, we have stayed apart. But now to assimilate you if it requires for us to rot in hell for 42 generations, we accept it’. It was later revealed it was not cow meat and the hosts were only testing the guests,” Bhagwat said, adding that “in kinship, you have to accept the ways of others”.

Such advocacy for beef eating by RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat undermining the Hindu sentiments against cow-slaughter and beef-eating raised a strong repercussion in the social media.

The ‘Hindu-Muslim Same DNA’, ‘Hindu and Muslims have Common Ancestors’, ‘Hindu Rashtra is incomplete with Muslims’, ‘Without Muslims Hindutva is not fulfilled’ ….. all such secular narratives by current Chief of RSS, Mohan Bhagwat have set a new definition of RSS as Rashtriya Secular Sangha.

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__Inputs from Hindu Human Rights and Indian Express.