Stressing the need to free India’s younger generation from the colonial mindset and “foreign slavery”, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s publicity in-charge Sunil Ambekar on October 4 said some people have monopolised everything, including defining what is secular and what is communal. These are the same people who call the ‘save tiger and save birds’ campaigns secular, but when it comes to ‘save cows’, it becomes communal.
“People ask why change names. I asked them, when the name of Madras was changed to Chennai, it was secular. When the name of Bombay was changed to Mumbai, then it was secular. Then how come when the name of Allahabad is changed to Prayagraj, it becomes communal?” Mr. Ambekar said.
He further noted that some people and countries had monopolised the definitions of “what is liberal and modern and what is communal and regressive”. He cautioned the people of the country against adhering to the definitions given by those countries, but create “own views based on our culture and identity”.
