The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) organised a ‘Secular India Meet’ seminar here on Tuesday at Mahadevi Verma Hall of Hindi Bhavan. Veteran journalist lajja Shankar Herdenia was the chief guest and the function was presided over by the State president of the party advocate Sajid Siddiqui while SDPI’s national general secretary from Bangalore Afsar Pasha was special guest on the occasion.
Herdenia in his address on the occasion said, “All political parties, while shedding away their differences, should come out on one platform to fight tooth and nail the nefarious designs of BJP-led NDA Government backed by the RSS to turn India into a Hindu State. Until and unless this is done it would be very difficult to save the secular characteristics of the country as enshrined in the Constitution of India.”
The seminar was part of the nation-wide programme being organised by SDPI from October 2-8, 2016 with slogans ‘Secularism is India’s life’ and ‘Secularism is inevitable for India’s existence’.
Herdenia, who is convener of the Rashtriya Secular Manch and a well-known activist for the cause of Secularism and democratic rights, charged that NDA Government’s intent is to capture judiciary in order to do away with the federal structure of India and impose on it Hindu Rashtra ideology while doing away with the Indian constitution which is secular in nature.
Afsar Pasha speaking on the occasion said that RSS had no role, whatsoever, in the freedom struggle of the country. From the day SDPI came into existence the party is engaged in unravelling the real truth about RSS which otherwise poses to be very much nationalistic and patriotic, he added.