Spokesperson of the Sanstha Chetan Rajhans (centre), while addressing a press conference in Mumbai, said their demand to remove the word 'secular is completed constitutional'

As the chorus to ban the Sanatan Sanstha grows louder, the organisation has come up with yet another controversial demand. The Hindutva organisation has demanded to remove the word "Secular" from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution.

Asserting on its objective of forming a "Hindu Rashtra", the organisation said that the Constitution does not provide any protection to the majority Hindu community.

Spokesperson of the Sanstha Chetan Rajhans and Sunil Ghanwat of the Hindu Jan Jagran Samiti addressed a press conference in Mumbai on Tuesday. "Our demand to remove the word 'secular' is completely constitutional as it was inserted in the Preamble later through an amendment. So what can be added through amendment can also be removed through a constitutional amendment," Ghanwat demanded.

"There is no protection to the majority community of Hindus in the Constitution. If a country like Pakistan can declare itself an Islamic nation, why can't we declare ourselves a Hindu rashtra?" he questioned.

Meanwhile the Sanatan Sanstha has reiterated its stand that Vaibhav Raut and other accused who were arrested recently for right wing terror links do not belong to the Sanatan Sanstha.

"We have clarified from time to time; and we wish to reiterate that none of these individuals is the Sadhak (seeker) of Sanatan Sanstha. In fact we heard the names of 5 individuals - Kalaskar, Andhure, Surale brothers and Rege for the first time," Chetan Rajhans said.

However, the Sanstha agreed that some of them attended a few programs of the Hindu Jan Jagran Samiti. "Although few of the arrested devout Hindu activists used to participate at local level in various programmes of Hindu unity organised by Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, their own work continued through the various organisations. "Just because they are arrested, a demand of banning Sanatan or arresting the head of Sanatan is ridiculous," Rajhans added.

Rajhans alleged that some progressive organisations, Left parties and families of the Narendra Dabholkar and Comrade Govind Pansare are targeting us for political mileage.

Rajhans informed that the organisation has decided to take legal route to stop the alleged falsehood spread in name of the Sanatan Sanstha.

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