Goa Congress takes objection to Deendayal Upadhyay's monogram on government forms

The Congress in Goa has taken objection to the decision of the Goa government to emboss a monogram of BJP ideologue Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay on official forms issued by the state directorate of Mines and Geology.

Addressing a press conference in Panaji, state Congress president Shantaram Naik said that Upadhyay was "ruthless in denouncing" the freedom struggle of India and had harsh views on Christians and Muslims living in Goa, which were violative of the principles in the Indian Constitution.

"BJP government's act of publishing a monogram of Deendayal Upadhyay on forms of the state directorate of Mines and Geology, is a treacherous act. He had believed that individualism, democracy, socialism, communism and capitalism cannot be relied upon as they have become a road block to the growth of expansion of original Bhartiya thought," Naik said.

"This thought of late Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay is a direct attack on the Constitution of India and as such, printing monograms of Upadhyay on government forms along with the state emblem, amounts to betrayal of the founding fathers of the Constitution," the state Congress president also said, adding that the late BJP ideologue had consistently stated, that if Muslims and Christians desired to stay in India, they should forget about their separate identity and merge in Hindu race or else would be treated as slaves.

--IANS

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