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Hindu unity is need of the hour: Natesan

By Our Staff Reporter

KOTTAYAM, JAN. 2. Unity among the various castes in the Hindu community is the need of the hour, the Sree Naryana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam general secretary, Vellappally Natesan, has said.

Delivering the keynote address at the Mannam Jayanthy celebrations at Perunna near here today, Mr. Natesan said that social justice was nothing but justice for different communities.

He held the political leadership, who according to him had resorted to the appeasement of organised communities, responsible for ruining secularism and creating communal tension in the State.

``The situation is such that the minorities could swallow the majority. We have only two options — either succumb to conversion or commit suicide,'' he said.

Nair-Ezhava unity

Mr. Natesan said that the issue of Nair-Ezhava unity or Hindu unity was nothing new. Leaders of both communities had strived towards achieving the goal, but could not realise it on account of the changed political scenario. Often it was a slip between the cup and the lip, he said. Making it clear that the present unity efforts had nothing to do with Hindutva ideology, he said the efforts were not targeted against any community. ``If we are able to do away with the differences within the Hindu community, then there will be no communal and religious tension,'' he said.

Time not ripe

He admitted that time was not ripe for the unity efforts to attain fruition in one stroke. But that did not mean that we should accept defeat, Mr. Natesan said and added that efforts should be continued to find areas where the two organisations could work together. Accepting that the two organisations had a love-hate relationship, he said that time was ripe to initiate such an effort, he said.

Mannathu Padmanabhan's effort was to transform Nair community into a modern society, he said.

The founding fathers of the NSS had actively participated in the reform movements launched by the SNDP Yogam, he said.

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