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"We must have cordial relations with each other. Minorities must have good relations with the majority for their safety. It is a statement of fact," RSS chief K C Sudarshan said after a dialogue with Christian leaders.
"The resolution is very clear," he said when asked if he justified the resolution passed at the meeting of the RSS Akhila Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha in Bangalore on March 17.
He said even leaders like Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi had taken a similar view. "We have just reiterated that position."
"You can live in peace in Britain by cultivating good relations with the British. Similarly, in France we should learn to live together with the French. Everywhere it is so."
He said it was Hinduism, which allowed the freedom to follow different modes of worship. But conflict would arise only when "one says ours is the only true way. No coercion should be there in terms of religion".
NCM vice president Tarlochan Singh wrote a letter to Sudarshan asking the RSS to "suitably modify" its resolution.
"We have been approached by many organisations to request you to reconsider its wordings," he said.
PTI
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