‘RSS is destroying universities to deprive Dalits and backward communities of higher education’
11 October 2023 | The Hindu Bureau
Thousands of people participated in the protest march to Central University of Karnataka at Kadaganchi near Kalaburagi on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI
Unleashing a bitter attack against Hindutva outfits of the right-wing ideology, progressive scholar and social activist R.K Hudgi has said that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its frontal organisations are making all-out efforts to destroy educational institutions, especially centres of higher education such as universities, to ensure that none from Dalit and backward communities and minorities get higher education.
“There are around 800 universities in India. The RSS is suppressing scientific thought and inculcating superstitious and regressive ideology among students in all these institutions. For, it wants to deprive Dalits, backward communities and minorities of higher education. RSS ideologues know how Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who got higher education from India and abroad, not only questioned the exploitative and oppressive social order but also organised the marginalised communities to raise their voices against it. They are afraid of what will happen if all Dalits and backward communities get higher education and question the supremacy of a few elite and privileged classes over the vast majority of masses at the bottom of society,” he said.