NPCC criticises naming of varsity library after RSS founder

Dimapur: Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has condemned the decision of the International University, Dimapur, formerly The Global Open University Nagaland, to name its newly inaugurated central library after Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).In a statement issued by its communication department, the NPCC called the decision divisive and vowed to "unapologetically and unwaveringly oppose efforts to poison our children's minds".It further called the decision profoundly troubling, adding it deserves condemnation from all sections of the society who believe in the secular and inclusive ethos of the Constitution of India."While the establishment of the library in itself is laudable, but to do so in honour of the founder ideologue of RSS, an organisation rooted in the idea of converting India into an RSS ideology-conforming Hindutva state, speaks of the intolerance and bigotry of the university," the NPCC said.It added that the university scripting this "disturbing act" in Nagaland, which is home to a sizable population of one of the nation's minority communities that have historically been at the receiving end of the RSS engineered majoritarian descriminatory agendas, is all the more abhorrent and nothing short of putting salt to injury on the people of the state and the minority communities living all over India as well.