No need to express one's faith in public, says Mattu

Chief Minister’s media adviser Dinesh Amin Mattu charged that religious centres like Mutts and various Peetas have become recruitment centers of fanatics.

Speaking at a rally organised by the District Congress Committee and Seva Dal to commemorate the 75th anniversary celebrations of Quit India Movement, he said that the ideology for safe society is secularism which should be inbuilt among the real Hindus and patriots. The hatredness for other religions is not the excuse to claim oneself as a staunch Hindu, he observed.

The religious heads should make an attempt to understand the real Hindutva, he said.

Giving a call to uphold the ideological secular views for the egalitarianism casteless society, he urged the Congress workers to follow the principles put forth the by the founders of the party, without expecting to get power, but with the real concern for the society. Congress party with age-long tradition of secularism cannot be defeated ideologically unless the opposition also has something to claim with the belief, he added.

The religion and the practice being too personal, there is no need to express faith in public. He questioned is enrolling as the BJP member will give authenticity for being Hindu. Is it the criteria, he sought to know.  

Coming down heavily on the Sangh Pariwar and the activists, he said the real Hindu is what is accepted by Swami Vivekananda and not the idea adopted by RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat. Political Hindutva is ruining the country, he said.