Sangh Shiksha Varga - 1997: The numbers for the Sangh Shiksha Varga for the previous year were 9,240 for 1 year, 3,044 for II year and 1,068 for the III year ... Increase in Shakhas and Supportive Centres: ... Most of the provinces present an overall increase in Shakhas ...
Besides the regular Shakhas, Saptahik Milans and Sangh Mandalis, efforts to reach new places in the rural and vanvasi areas through the Jagarana Patrikas, brought out in all major languages, are also picking up ... New Thrusts in Sena Activities: Service activities too have made steady progress ... A team of experts have come up with "Seva Disha". Its Second Edition has come up with more authentic data, categorising of service activities organisation-wise, type-wise, province-wise ... One vital consideration ... has been .. , social transformation ... conducive to our total integrated concept of resurgent, reorganised Hindu National Life ..
The 'Swarna Jayanthi Sangh Sangam' organised at Ludhiana on the 17th of November last was historic in more sense than one ...
... All time high turnout of nearly 20,600 uniformed Swayamsevaks drawn from about 970 places - a good number of Keshadharis among them ..
The presence of Sardar P.S. Badal, the Chief Minister of Punjab and his outspoken speech ... Unveiling of a portrait of Guru Nanak Dev at the Guru Nanak Stadium by Sardar Gurucharan Singh Tohra, President of Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee ... The massive get together of 1.25 lakhs of Swayamsevaks and well wishers at the Nehru Stadium in Delhi on 2nd October 1997, overflowed into the surrounding roads and was the biggest ever in Delhi so far.
The Sangh Shiksha Varga during July and August 1997 at Bangalore ... was attended by 63 trainees from 7 countries (including) South Africa and Guyana ... During the same period, Rashtra Sevika Samiti also had organised a training camp for 42 Sevikas from 7 countries.
Sri D. Thengadi ... addressed the 'The Other Economic Summit' Conference parallel to the one of G-5 countries ... attended by over 1,000 economists, sociologists and social workers from several countries (and met) with the Presidents and Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Guyana ...
Sardar Chiranjiv Singh toured UK and some countries of Europe, USA and Canada helped in establishing the branches of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat and bringing the Keshadhari bandhus nearer to the Sangh, (There was) an impressive camp of Sangh Swayamsevaks in Kenya and four similar camps in Malaysia ... Sangh and allied organisations launched one of the biggest national-awakening campaigns through the Bharat-Mata Poojan programme ...
Visit of Nepal King and Queen: ... King of Nepal and the Queen (visited) Haridwar on 20th October, 1997 .. to inaugurate 3-day Virat Hindu Sangam jointly organised by kanchi Kamakoti Peetham and Vishwa Hindu Maha Sangh of Bharat ... Nepal Naresh (was described) as "the emperor of the devout Hindus the world over" by Ashok Singhal ...
Tamil Nadu: ... The Hindu Unity Yatra initiated by the Sangh was led by respected sadhus ... and joined by several Hindus ... organisations ...
Bihar: ... The Sangh and other allied organisations have initiated a unique programme termed Gram Gaurav in Bihar villages. Mainly it revolves round evoking righteous pride in the achievements by the residents of that village.
Mizoram's Hindu Minority: Mizoram ... has ... shown what a terrible fate awaits its Hindu minority population if they refuse to get converted to Christianity. The Hindus belonging to Reang janajatis ... During 1997, 23 temples of Reangs were destroyed. But when they still resisted conversion, a couple of Mizo terrorist organisations abetted by Christian missionaries and in league with the State Armed Constabulary let loose a terrible spree of looting, burning, killing and raping and drove nearly 31,000 of them out of the State ...
VKA ... went to their aid immediately ... The least that the Central Government has to do immediately is to form an Autonomous District Council for the Reangs ...
Coimbatore Blasts: Even as Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu was reeling under the riots and the toll of 17 ... The series of dastardly bomb attacks there ... have taken a heavy toll of over 60 ... L.K. Advani, the BJP president ... was the prime target ...
.. Subversive forces, pampered all along by the DMK Government have been emboldened to act with impunity ... The DMK will, I hope, take stern measure to liquidate such forces.
Kashmir: The massacre of 23 Hindus in Kashmir Valley by the insurgents has once again exposed the hollowness of the J&K Government's propaganda that the atmosphere there has become normal enough for the uprooted Hindu families to return.
There has been a general climate of lawlessness all over the country ... Internal saboteurs aided by hostile agencies like ISI indulged in a series of bomb blasts right in national capital, Mumbai, Calcutta and in trains and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu ...
In respect of our overall territorial security too, ... cut down in allotment ... for defense (in) adequate ... army officers cadre and slow-down of new recruitment of the general category - all these are public knowledge. And this in the face of feverish build up of latest weaponry by hostile neighbours Pakistan and China ...
Inherent perennial vital energy of the nation onceagain sprouting forth ... There are massive movements for general Dharmic and social awareness being carried on by various organisations and eminent men ...
In fact, these two apparently conflicting pictures represent ... a single unfolding momentous event, the birth pangs and the eventual birth of a strong, effulgent, Hindu Entity shedding off the debris of the past and ushering in an era of purity, plenty, self-reliance and self-respeçt ... (Source: The Varsha Pratipada Special, 29 March, 1998)
