Samskrit Bharati, New Delhi

 

R = RSS  e= edu, Hinduization

 

What is Samskrit Bharati?

 

A Government-supported organization which develops lessons and organized classes to teach Sanksrit.

 

WHO wants to shut them down?

The Marxists.

 

From “The HINDU” internet news [ [i]]:

 

Ex-Pondy Minister held for disrupting Sanskrit class

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry May 18. Eleven persons including the former Pondicherry Agriculture Minister and member of the CPI national council, R Viswanathan, were arrested today following a complaint from the organiser of a Sanskrit teaching programme here.

These persons, including activists of the CPI-led All-India Youth Federation were arrested for criminal intimidation, damage to government property, causing hurt and also rioting at the Pondicherry Engineering College. The police are looking for nine more persons, the Inspector-General, J P Singh, told newsmen. The arrested include K. Murugan, AIYF secretary.

It is said that as the classes were in progress, a 20-member group barged into the conference hall and caused disturbance. The trouble makers also indulged in molestation, the IGP said. The incidents resulted in minor injuries to five participants in the coaching programme, organised by the Samskrit Bharati under a scheme supported by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry. A total of 250 persons from different parts of Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and Kerala (including a good number of women) turned up for the class in response to an advertisment released in a newspaper by the Samskrit Bharathi. (Following the incidents, the programme was cancelled and according to a BJP source the organisers shifted the venue to Chennai).

The CPI State committee secretary, N. Kalainathan, demanding the release of the arrested, alleged that in the name of free Sanskrit teaching, RSS philosophy was being spread by the organisers of the programme. The CPI was not against teaching or learning of Sanskrit. But there should be no misuse of the privilege. How could training of participants to face situations through self-defence be permitted, he asked, talking to newsmen.

However, the BJP secretary, Ragu Sundararaman, said the training programme was being conducted in keeping with a scheme evolved by the HRD Ministry.

Prior permission was obtained from the college management for holding the programme.

"The uncivilised manner in which the CPI men attacked the participants and organisers deserved to be condemned in the strongest terms", Mr. Sundararaman said.

He alleged that Mr. Viswanathan had telephonically intimidated the principal of the college, who was away in Coimbatore, against letting the Samskrit Bharathi hold the classes on the institution premises.