Chennai
Scores of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteers, each boys and males in uniform, marched on the streets of Puducherry in a procession on Sunday, even because the neighbouring Tamil Nadu denied them permission and pulled up by a court docket to permit them on November 6 as a substitute.
Bharatiya Janata Occasion MP in Puducherry, S Selvaganapathy, flagged off the procession round 4pm the place the members sporting their uniform (darkish olive inexperienced trousers, white shirt, cap, belt, black sneakers) have been led by a musical band, and autos which carried saffron flags.
A Namassivayam, current house minister and former president of the Puducherry Congress Pradesh Committee, who was among the many rebels to modify over to the BJP final 12 months, additionally participated sporting the normal uniform of the RSS, the ideological mentor of the BJP.
Greater than 500 RSS volunteers from numerous shakas (branches) participated within the march, which culminated in a public assembly. The procession went by means of Puducherry’s arterial roads and essential factors corresponding to Nehru road. Greater than a 1,000 law enforcement officials have been deployed alongside the march route to forestall any legislation and order subject.
The superintendent of police (east) in Puducherry’s Nationwide Democratic Alliance authorities by an order on September 16 granted permission for the RSS with sure situations. Nevertheless, the opposition, which included Puducherry’s former Congress chief minister V Narayanasamy, and DMK leaders, held a human chain on Sunday morning, opposing the permission granted to RSS. They raised slogans that Puducherry was a peaceable territory and Hindutva was being pushed on them.
In each Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, the RSS mentioned that the march was being carried out on account of three causes: Vijayadashami pageant (when the RSS was based in 1925), B R Ambedkar’s one hundred and twenty fifth beginning anniversary and seventy fifth 12 months of India’s Independence.
In the meantime in Tamil Nadu, the RSS and DMK-led authorities are dealing with the matter within the Madras excessive court docket. After the Tamil Nadu authorities disallowed the route march initially scheduled on October 2 resulting from legislation and order issues, the court docket on Friday directed Tamil Nadu police to grant permission on November 6 as a substitute. The court docket mentioned contempt motion might be initiated if the order is violated.
The identical single decide bench G Okay Ilanthiraiyan had on September 22 gave its nod for RSS’s route march, with 11 situations. However the state authorities argued that they’ve intelligence experiences of legislation and order disruption following a number of petrol bomb assaults on BJP and RSS members, which erupted after the Nationwide Investigation Company raided the now banned Common Entrance of India on September 22 and 27.