India Behind The Lens (News Centre)

Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, RSS, ran several programmes in Muslim majority areas of Western UP last month. The organisation was in direct touch with several maulanas and other influential muslims of Moradabad, Bareilly, Saharanpur, Mujaffarpur, Meerut and Agra.

RSS' muslim wing, Muslim Rashtriya Manch, MRM has been engaging Muslims with it for past 10 years. It is the only Muslim organisation which works with a nationalist, and not Islamic agenda.

हिंदी में पढ़ें : मुस्लिम युवाओं की पसंद बन रहा है आरएसएस का मुस्लिम मंच
Coordinator of MRM, Mohammad Afzal said that MRM is active in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of India and Muslim youth is joining it in large numbers. He said that Muslim elders have prejudices against RSS and it's not easy to convince them but the youth understands the need to be together else external powers will dominate India.

Afzal said, "We're reaching out to Muslim youth. New generation understands today's reality and we've been successful in making them understand that Congress and other so-called secular parties have betrayed the Muslim community for all these years and that BJP and RSS do not pose any threat to them."

MRM has branches in over 200 districts spanning over 27 states of India having thousands of Muslims associated with it. It was established in 2002 by Senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar, who’s been with the RSS since 1959. It is an organisation of nationalist Muslims with a motive to bring them in national mainstream. Indresh Kumar, who graduated with highest honours from Punjab Engineering College in Mechanical Engineering, didn’t take up a job to serve the nation. Recently, MRM has organised a big gathering at Jantar Mantar in which over 10000 Muslims had gathered. It was blacked out by the mainstream media (RSS' Magic - Kashmiri Muslims call for revoking article 370, taking back PoK and CAK).

Afzal admits that he has to answer questions on Gujarat riots, and the allegations on Narendra Modi and Indresh Kumar, posed by Muslim youth. He says that there has been a false malafide propaganda against RSS. Indresh was extremely popular among Muslims but an attempt was made to frame him in blast case. Afzal revealed that they've been in touch with Devbandi and Barelwi Maulanas and they expect Muslims to vote for the BJP in large numbers this time.