Muslims urged to adopt ‘Swadeshi’ to make ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’

New Delhi, May 30: Appealing to strive for making ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, senior RSS functionary and Patron of Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) Indresh Kumar asked the Muslims to adopt ‘Swadeshi’ in their life.

He was addressing ‘Id Milan Tarang Samroh’ organized online using modern technology in the period of lockdown due to COVID-19 on Friday (May 29). Over 300 participants attended the online program across the country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Saurashtra to Manipur. His message of Id was further conveyed to millions of Muslims across Bharat and outside through multiple sharing.

 This was the first of its kind program organized in Bharat. No Muslim organization has ever thought of holding such ‘Id Milan’ program which otherwise would be a regular festive occasion for the Muslims across the world. This year due to the COVID-19 outbreak the Ramazan and Id remained a low-key affair.

Extending the Id greetings to all, Indresh Kumar pointed at the outset that this was a critical time and we are celebrating the festival of Id in a very different atmosphere. The Coronavirus attack has forced all of us to celebrate all the religious festivals within the four walls of our houses forbidding social mixing.

The Prime Minister declared the lockdown on March 25 and continued it to save the people from the corona attack. This made the Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Christians celebrate all their festivals such as Navratri, Baisakhi, Mahavir Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, Good Friday, and Easter, inside their houses and now the Muslims too observed the holy month of Ramazan likewise.

Indresh Kumar said that during the Ramazan, every house became an ‘Ibadtgaah’ (Prayer home) filling the surrounding with holy ideas and emotions. By doing so at the behest of our Prime Minister, the Muslims proved that they value the safety and security of the society and the country topmost.

‘Nation First’ is a sure way to ‘Jannat’, Indresh Kumar said congratulating the Muslims for adhering to this principle and applying it in their life during this trying period of the COVID-19 pandemic. He specially congratulated them for neglecting those elements who tried to spread fundamentalism and communalism using religion. He said that this ‘miracle of friendship with religion’ is experienced by all of us during this period.

He said that the culture of ‘Hind’ is different from the rest of the world. We always spread love and brotherhood in place of fundamentalism. All the big nations of the world including Russia, the USA, the European nations failed to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic. India did it successfully with the lowest ever death rate as compared to these nations.

Bharat also came forward to help the other nations of the world in this period of crisis and extended all possible help like medicines, PPE kits, and other materials without indulging in business tactics. This help was given only on the humanitarian grounds, he said. Therefore, Narendra Modi is the only such world leader who has been in contact with all the leaders of the world and keeps assuring help to them.

He appealed to the MRM activists to spread the message of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and encourage the use of ‘Swadeshi’ goods to make a ‘Naya Hindustan’.

Indresh Kumar said that this is the opportunity to make a happy Bharat by the following discipline in our daily life and adopting a new lifestyle to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic.

Giving a new program to MRM he said we will take oath today to make ourselves strong and thereby to make our nation strong. ‘Hum Mazboot- Mazboot Bharat Shapath Abhiyan’ was officially launched at the end of the meeting. The slogans of the campaign were –

हिन्दुस्तानी अपनाएंगे – भारत को बनाएंगे; कट्टरता मिटाएंगे – नफरत को भगाएंगे;

ना भड़केंगे - ना भड़कने देंगे; एक हिन्द जय हिन्द जोर से गुंजाएंगे

(We will adopt Hindustani to make Bharat, erase fundamentalism, remove hatred, we will not get swayed away either nor allow anyone to get swayed; We will fill the skies with the chant ‘Ek Hind Jai Hind’.)

This campaign will continue until August 15. The Madhya Pradesh unit of the MRM has already launched a program called ‘Selfie with Arogya Setu App’. Referring to this campaign, Indresh Kumar appealed to all the participants to download this app for their safety.

Besides, he also appealed to them to offer special prayers on Every Friday to ward off the crisis of Coronavirus pandemic and to ensure the welfare of all.

MRM National Convener Mohd. Afzal also expressed his views and thanked all the participants for attending this program.

Dr. Shahid Akhtar, MRM National Convener hosted the program attended by over 300 plus activists of MRM and prominent Muslims from across the country.