New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday gave clear cut answers to the six questions posed by a delegation of Muslim clerics led by the Sunni Ulema Council's general secretary to the RSS in February.
Starting with a reply to the question 'whether India is a Hindu country?', Swamy said India is Hindustan, that is a land of Hindus and of those others who are of Hindu descent or ancestry.
Later, in a series of tweets he cleared RSS' stand on Hindu rashtra.
Here are the tweets:
The Sunni Ulema Council General Secretary Haji Mohammed Salees has posed six questions on Hindu-Muslim relations. In Twitter I will answer.
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
Q1: Whether India is a Hindu Country? A: India is Hindustan that is a land of Hindus and those others who are of Hindu descent or ancestry.
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
Q2: Whether there is a format to make India into Hindu Rashtra. A2: No.We are bound by the Constitution with a Basic Structure unamendable
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
But the Directive Principle of the Constitution with other easily amendable Articles e.g., 370 de facto makes it a Hindutva Constitution.
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
Q3: Will this Constitution be according to Hindu religious texts. A3: No. It will be secular because India will be a Hindustan Republic.
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
Q4: What does Hindutva mean for religious conversion? A4:Under the Constitution conversion illegal if induced by bribe or force. If... contd
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
induced then de-conversion I.e., uninduced Gharwapsi is legal and Constitutional no matter how long ago conversion had taken place.
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
Q5:What is Hindu view of Islam? A5: Islam is an established religious theology. Hindus believe that God can be reached through Islam. But...
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
Hindus believe that the 800 years of Islamic violence against Hindus and Hindu institutions have to be acknowledged and addressed. A step..
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
is to voluntarily agree to shift the offending masjids in Mathura, Ayodhya, and Varanasi to other acceptable suitable locations.
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
Q6: What kind of Rashtra prem do Hindus want from Muslims? A6: Same as from Hindus & other Indians. Our public policies should be guided...
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
by national interests and not by sectional interests. Hindustani Muslims should accept nation's support for Israel just as Tamils should SL
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
However, Swamy also said that the above-mentioned replies are his personal views to be presented to Virat Hindustan Sangam meeting for adoption in Mumbai on May 2 and 3.
These are my personal views to be presented to VIrat Hindustan Sangam meeting for adoption in in Mumbai on May 2&3
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) March 26, 2015
The Muslim delegation, which met RSS functionary Indresh in February, had claimed that the latter refused to answer their questions and instead said that a conference of Muslim organisations should be called where he would give the answers.
"We had a meeting with senior RSS functionary Indreshji last night during which we asked six questions, but he did not have any answer," Sunni Ulema Council general secretary Haji Mohammed Salees was quoted as saying by PTI on February 17.
He had also alleged that Indreshji, who is pracharak and looks after minority affairs in the organisation, got "irritated" with the questions.
(With PTI inputs)
