Rss Spreads Wings In Punjab

[shastarSingh]

SAD aflutter as RSS spreads wings in Punjab
Ruchika M Khanna
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 11
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is spreading its wings far and wide in Punjab. With the help of its 20-odd front organizations (that owe its origins to the RSS), the right wing organization is aggressively using social welfare as a medium to reach out to people in the state.

Much to the chagrin of the ruling SAD and the Congress, which is sitting in Opposition for more than seven years now, the RSS is quietly acting as a foot soldier of its political wing - the BJP. With anti incumbency against the Akali Dal setting in and a divided Congress unable to project itself an alternative, the RSS is quietly steeping on to the political space that is falling vacant.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has visited the state four times this year. During his visits, Bhagwat held closed-door meetings with the head of Radha Soami Satsang Dera.

Senior BJP leader L K Advani visited the head of Radha Soami Dera at Beas last month, allegedly as a follow up to the meeting between Bhagwat and Gurinder Singh - the Radha Soami Dera head. A senior RSS functionary said the meeting was held only to ensure that the two non-government organisations continued to work for communal harmony and social welfare. Sources say that RSS workers are partnering with smaller deras, especially in the Majha and Doaba regions of the state, and promoting social welfare schemes like post-matric scholarship scheme. This scheme has seen a 100 per cent jump in its enrolment for poor students.

RSS leaders say that they are aggressively working in those areas of Punjab which have been worst affected by drug menace, and in the border districts of Punjab where unemployment is rampant. Sources say that the workers have got good response in the areas, which traditionally are Akali bastions.

Though the RSS has always been active in Amritsar, Ludhiana, Gurdaspur, Ferozepur, Abohar and Fazilka, the sangh has also infiltrated into smaller towns and districts. The state is divided into six ‘vibhags’ and each ‘vibhag’ is divided into smaller units called ‘nagars’.

Sources say the RSS presence in Mohali, Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib, Barnala, Bathinda and Moga is relatively new and response in these areas was good.

While Rashtriya Sikh Sangat – a front organisation of the RSS is being re-activated, the organization is also re-energising Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) - student wing and Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (labour wing). Social organizations that owe their allegiance to the RSS – Sewa Bharti and Bhartiya Vikas Parishad -- too, are stepping up their social activities to involve more people.

As of now, the RSS has 630 shakhas (branches) spread across Punjab. Senior RSS functionaries, on condition of anonymity, told The Tribune that they are opening at least 200 more shakhas, mainly in rural and semi-urban areas. “Of late, there has been great enthusiasm among the people of the state to enroll with the RSS,” said a top leader in the state. He added that the social work done by the RSS and its subsidiaries in Punjab was highly appreciated by people, who were now actively engaged with the RSS through its shakhas and camps organized by it. THey said they had no political ambitions behind the social service. But the inroads being made by the RSS have raised the heckles of their political opponents as well as allies.

7 ‘vibhags’ in Punjab

Patiala ‘vibhag, (Chandigarh, Mohali, Patiala, Ropar & Fatehgarh Sahib)

Amritsar ‘vibhag’ (Gurdaspur, Batala, Amritsar)

Bathinda ‘vibhag’ (Barnala, Bathinda and Mansa)

Ludhiana ‘vibhag’ (Malerkotla, Ludhiana, Sangrur & Moga)

Ferozepur ‘vibhag’ ( Abohar, Ferozepur, Fazilka)

Jalandhar ‘vibhag’ ( Jalandhar rural, Jalandhar urban, Kapurthala & Nawanshahr)

Pathankot ‘vibhag’

Saffron surge

* RSS has 630 shakhas in Punjab. It plans to add 200 more.

* RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has visited Punjab four times this year. Had visited Mansa in May and Doraha in September.

* The right wing organisation using social issues to reach out to people.

* This will benefit BJP as it targets Mission 2017.

RSS structure

* Sangh Chalak - Braj Bhushan Bedi

* Prant Karyavaha - Munishwar (also coordinates between BJP and RSS)

* Sah Prant Karyavaha -- Amrit Sagar Jain

* Sharirik Pramukh - Vinay

* Boddhik Pramukh - Vijay Singh

* Prant Pracharaks - Vishal and Kishore

* Prant Sampark Pramukh - Ram Lal Gupta.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20141112/main5.htm

[lsingh]

At first the RSS used indirect methods , now they are openly attacking the Sikhs. For years the Rhadha Soamis, Namdharis, Sanatan Nihangs have pushed the anti Sikh agenda , now they are openly siding with the RSS. Sikh Jathabandis must launch a mass parchar campaign to counter this. Even Badal should change now that he is insulted everyday by the BJP/RSS, so much for his alliance with them.

[Jonny101]

Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu who is an MLA in Amritsar has welcomed the move of the RSS trying to spread it's wings in Punjab. People think just because she and her husband are against Akalis, they are good people. But truth is they are also enemies of Sikhs. While Navjot K Sindhu is welcoming RSS, her husband(Navjot "Singh" Sidhu) almost attacked a Sikh in the Teja Singh Samundri hall for daring to question Advani why he supported operation BlueStar in his autobiography. None of these politicians are friends of the Sikhs

[Mehtab Singh]

This is a slap on our face, and an open challenge. Sikhs abroad launched movements such as "Ban the RSS", and what not to prevent these guys coming to the West. Now look how they responded, they are aiming to open 800 plus branches just in Punjab, the homeland of the same Sikhs who didn't let them travel outside.

Question is, how do we now respond? Our love for our parcharaks is evident from the other thread about Gyani Thakur Singh ji. Our love for each other is very much evident from the Bhatra thread. We are ourselves providing fodder to these snakes to prosper on the holy land of the Gurus. We are the ones exposing our weaknesses and giving them a chance to formulate new strategies on HOW to attack us, WHEN to attack, WHERE to attack, and through whom to attack.

And I can guarantee you guys, no wait, not guarantee, I can promise you guys, tomorrow when a group of Sikhs do take this threat seriously and get ready to face these guys head on, we will have enough Sikhs (no no, not Hindus, not RSS) who will make sure to damage those Sikhs in anyways possible. Why? Because thats who we have become! We are damn crabs! Anyone who goes up or wants to go up, we HAVE TO pull them down! And then we whine and blame the RSS for all the $h!t we have to face.

Wake up people! A snake is a snake is a snake! You walk into a garden barefoot without a stick and get bitten by a snake, you would look like a jackass if you told the world "see the snake bit me, boohoo"! YOU would be the one laughed at for not taking the necessary precaution! The RSS is a snake, we know bloody well its a snake, but we, for whatever reason refuse to take precaution. Ah but we are best at ridiculing anyone who does.

I am seriously done with the constant blame game when its our own people, leaders (sshhhh Jathedars) who are their buddies. 3 generations later our kids will ask us "Daada jee, why did the Sikhs suffer so much?"..."son, we are clean hearted naive bholey people, we trusted Nehru and got backstabbed, we trusted Badals and got backstabbed when he invited RSS to Punjab, we trusted the Jathedaars and got our a$$es kicked, you see, we are so nice, we got cheated every time"..."no daada jee, you guys were a bunch of retarded morons who didn't learn their lesson after repeated a$$-kicking, and its because of you that even in 2084 people still confuse us as Hindus or Muslims, you should be ashamed daada ji!"

These will be the last words we will hear on our death beds if we don't take some effing action before our beards turn milk white.

[ms514]

VAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA, VAHEGURU JI KI FATEH

Good!

No awakening occurs in the Sikh community until we are under attack, and it takes genocides to wake all of the Panth up to any sort of unity. It's not like our people were bright enough to vote out the Akaalis for the past 30+ years. "Naa, Asi Ta Akaali Nu Hi Vote Pauni!". Bara Rang Laayaa Akaalian Neh. They deserve marginalization and we deserve being put into a corner and to be beaten until we wake up and see with our open eyes that we are losing everything and we had better wake up and start swinging back.

How many 1984s will it take to wake this sleeping Panth, boot everyone out of the Takht Sahiban and SGPC, hold Sarbat Khalsa and declare our nation to awaken and fight for its survival? Victory is ours, provided we can become Khalsa - so we declare every day when we meet each other and say Fateh. Victory, independence and the highest respect is there for the taking, provided we can become worthy of receiving it.

[Mehtab Singh]

Meanwhile....

Damdama Sahib Jathedar Issues Warning to RSS While Addressing Nagar Kirtan

http://www.sikh24.com/2014/11/13/damdama-sahib-jathedar-issues-warning-to-rss-while-addressing-nagar-kirtan/#.VGT43PnF-mA

[Mehtab Singh]

VAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA, VAHEGURU JI KI FATEH

Good!

No awakening occurs in the Sikh community until we are under attack, and it takes genocides to wake all of the Panth up to any sort of unity. It's not like our people were bright enough to vote out the Akaalis for the past 30+ years. "Naa, Asi Ta Akaali Nu Hi Vote Pauni!". Bara Rang Laayaa Akaalian Neh. They deserve marginalization and we deserve being put into a corner and to be beaten until we wake up and see with our open eyes that we are losing everything and we had better wake up and start swinging back.

How many 1984s will it take to wake this sleeping Panth, boot everyone out of the Takht Sahiban and SGPC, hold Sarbat Khalsa and declare our nation to awaken and fight for its survival? Victory is ours, provided we can become Khalsa - so we declare every day when we meet each other and say Fateh. Victory, independence and the highest respect is there for the taking, provided we can become worthy of receiving it.

You know I was once watching a BBC documentary they telecasted a few years ago in mid August when both India and Pakistan surprisingly celebrate the massacre of their very own people. I forgot who it was, but they quoted an opinion by one of the British officers, his view about Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. Now these guys had ruled for 200 years and had interacted heavily with practically every community, so they had an opinion, a viewpoint about each one. The Hindus were seen as those who could see a storm coming from a distance, make preparations, and are able to secure almost everything just in the nick of time. The Muslims were seen as those who could see the storm when its right above their head, they try their best and secure the most important things as quickly as possible.

You want to know know what they said about the Sikhs? The Sikhs were seen as people who would realize that a storm had struck only AFTER te storm had passed away after devastating everything.

Its upto us to change not only this opinion, but our mindsets too.

And correct me if these words were from a British officer or an Indian/Pakistani, because I vaguely remember an Indian/Pakistani quoting a British officer's opinion.

[savinderpalsingh]

heard bachan from a gursikh pyaara he was told by a gupt puratan mahapurash who is alive from many ages

said " rss da raaj auna" fer khalse da aaoo baadch

time is near immerse in gurbani only naam will help

[ghettosikh]

This is really scary stuff going on why are the rss allowed to open up so many branches when they are clearly hurting sikh sentiments also what does this mean for the sikh diaspora will trips back to punjab be dangerous as a lot of us practice and hold on to authentic sikhi and what can b done to help bros and sisters back home we have to start raising awareness in out countries about this stuff aswell not once outside of this site have I heard anyone talking about this takeover of out ancestral land we need to make change fast before it's too late

[ghettosikh]

The last thing we need is a repeat of 1984 these ras r dangerous maniacs! Us sikhs were traditionally so strong and hindus didn't dare mess with now that they've got our brothers hooked on drugs and wat not they r going in for the kill our gurdwaras should b funding money to stop this crap from taking place