Indian discovered America -- RSS
R.B. SINGH

LUCKNOW, DEC 16: It was an Indian, and not Christopher Columbus, who discovered America. Indians Aryabhatta and Bhaskaracharya, and not Newton, who first came to know about the gravitational force. Sanskrit is the mother language of all European languages.

World history has been rewritten in this manner in one of the half-a-dozen booklets titled Hamein Hindu Hone Ka Garv Hai being distributed door-to door by RSS activists.

In order to refurbish its image, the RSS today launched a state-wide ‘‘Rashtriya Jagran Abhiyan’’ to mark the 75th anniversary of the organisation. Its members will go on a door-to-door campaign to dispel ‘‘misconceptions’’ about the Sangh Parivar.

Thousands of teams consisting of two or more activists will also hand over a portrait of ‘‘Bharat Mata’’ to each family, including those of political leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati, besides apprising them about the good work being done by RSS.

They will endeavour to expose those who were trying to divide Hindus on caste lines for their vested political interests. The campaign will culminate on January 14 with a ‘sahbhoj’ for the new activists.

According to Vijay Aggarwal, UP in-charge of RSS, 1,124 teams had been constituted for Lucknow itself.

Aggarwal said ‘‘a conspiracy” was on to ‘‘denigrate the RSS’’. ‘‘Whenever a Muslim or a Christian is beaten up or killed, the RSS is blamed,’’ he said.

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