Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Tuesday said the organisation believes that there is no need to turn India into a `Hindu Rashtra’ or Hindu nation because the country has always been one.
The senior RSS leader was speaking to the media at Bhuj in Gujarat’s Kutch district on the last day of the Sangh’s three-day All India Executive Board meeting, PTI reported.
“India is already a Hindu Rashtra and it will remain so in the future too. Dr Hedgewar (founder of RSS) had once said that as long as there is a Hindu in this country, this country is a Hindu nation. The Constitution talks about a state system, which is different. As a nation, India was, India is and India will remain a Hindu Rashtra,” Hosabale said.
He was replying to the question “when will India become a Hindu nation.”
Caring about the country’s unity and spending some time for the betterment of society is `Hindutva’, Hosabale said.
“The RSS does the work of making the people realize that India is a Hindu Rashtra. Thus, there is no need to establish a Hindu Rashtra because India is already one. That is what the RSS believes,” he said.
One of the main challenges before the country is a conspiracy to divide it on the `north versus south’ lines, the RSS general secretary claimed.
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