Over 400 RSS members resign over Goa chief's sacking

September 01, 2016 09:59

Over 400 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers, including district shakha heads in Goa, have resigned from the organisation, demanding the reinstatement of the state Goa chief Subhash Velingkar who had taken a public stance against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the state with members of an outfit run by him even showing black flags to party chief Amit Shah recently.

Velingkar, the convener of Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch which is fighting for withdrawal of grants to English medium schools and for the cause of promoting regional languages as Medium of Instruction in the coastal state, has been at loggerheads with the saffron party as well as Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar.

"All office bearers from the district units, sub district units and shakhas along with hundreds of others have decided quit from the RSS, until Velingkar Sir is reinstated," said Ramdas Saraf, south district pramukh of the RSS. "We will not work for RSS until the decision to strip him as Goa Vibhag Sangh Chalak is revoked," Saraf said.

Velingkar courted controversy earlier this week by reportedly saying that BJP may not win the election in Goa since it had "betrayed" people's trust by going back on its promise of making regional languages the medium of instruction in schools.

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