ABVP, (Akhil Bharatiy Vidyarthi Parishad - a students' wing) had
arranged a big function at MES College, Pune. Probably because of my BAMCEF
activities, my public speaches in the programs of the Siddharth Shikshan Samiti (S-4), S/C, S/T
officers association and reactions discussed occasionally with youth/students
coming for “Akashwani Youth Programme” about Hindu religion with specific
reference to its permissible and unbreakable sanctions to ill treat and to
consider almost inhuman the yesterday’s untouchables and present scheduled
castes. probably the ABVP invited me to participate in this Function, I was quite in limelight. Some students took me to the hall
where I noticed that the map of India embedded with the picture of Goddess of
Saraswati (Godess of Learning). I said to the organizer that there was nothing
wrong to worship God/Goddess of one’s faith. But if we start identifying our
God/Goddess with our country, then different religious groups will start the
same, which will create chaos and a national problem. My statement opened a
heated argument. Thinking they made a mistake by inviting me, my name was
dropped from the speakers' list and after tea one of them drove me back to
Akashwani (All India Radio).
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