Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 29: The Trustees of the Temple of understanding India Foundation, under the chairmanship of Dr Karan Singh, have expressed their deep shock and horror at the recent utterances by some Hindu Swamis in Haridwar and elsewhere.
“The open call for genocide of minorities is absolutely shocking, The perpetrators will surely be punished under the law of the land, because their statement are not only against existing legislation but against the very Constitution itself,” said Dr Karan Singh, in a statement, issued here today.
He further said that by making such statements, such elements have distorted the great Vedantic principles of common welfare and brotherhood found in the Upanishads which form the true basis of Hinduism, thereby insulting Hinduism itself.
Maintaining that in a multi-religious , multi linguistic and multi-cultural nations like India, we simply cannot afford hostile and divisive statements from any religion, far less from Hinduism which represents the vast majority in the country, Dr Karan Singh said that these events highlight the importance of re-energising the interfaith movement which strives to bring together people of different religious persuasion in a harmonious and creative dialogue.
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