Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has slammed the decision of the International University, Dimapur (formerly, The Global Open University Nagaland), to name their recently inaugurated central library after Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, the founder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
NPCC through its communications department said the decision was “profoundly troubling” and deserved condemnation from all sections of the society who believed in the secular and inclusive ethos of the Constitution of India.
The Congress party said establishment of the library in itself was laudable, but to do so in honour of the founder ideologue of RSS, “an organisation rooted in the idea of converting India into an RSS ideology conforming Hindutva state speaks to the intolerance and bigotry of the university.”
NPCC reminded that Nagaland was home to a sizable population of one of the nation’s minority communities that have historically been at the receiving end of “RSS engineered majoritarian discriminatory agendas”.
Therefore, NPCC said the International University scripting “this disturbing act in Nagaland” was all the more abhorrent, adding it was nothing short of putting salt to injury on the people of Nagaland and the minority communities living all over India as well.
NPCC said the party “strongly denounces this divisive act” of the International University and would “oppose their efforts to poison our children’s minds, unapologetically and unwaveringly.”