MYSURU: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said India’s diversity is to be celebrated and that no one should be subjected to persecution and discriminated against because of their different attires or different ways of worship or dissimilar traditions.This is the second time in a month that the RSS Sarsangchalak has emphasised on India’s diversity. He had told an RSS workers’ meet in Ahmedabad earlier that the idea of “unity in diversity” stemmed from Hindu culture and that Sangh’s work was in that direction. Bhagwat’s conciliatory tone was in sharp contrast to his speech in Kolkata in December where he wholeheartedly endorsed the anticonversion or ‘Ghar Wapsi’ drive by fringe Hindutva elements.On Sunday, the Sarsangchalak said universe was a single organism, and for universal well-being, people need to co-exist as one.“Diversity is to be celebrated and not to be opposed. No one should be subjected to persecution and discriminated against because of their different attires or different ways of worship and dissimilar traditions. All this must co-exist together and find a way to take everybody along with us,” he said speaking at a conference organised by the International Centre for Cultural Studies , an RSS-inspired organisation.”The living of diversity together is not on the basis of contract, but on the basis of acceptance.Modern concept of life suggests that we need to tolerate each other. But our ancient traditions with vast experience said that we need to accept each other not tolerate,” he said.Bhagwat said that utility cannot the basis for acceptance. “Different traditions look different but they are one. Oneness is the absolute truth and the permanent reality. Our tradition say we need to sustain everything, accept all nature and every other traditions,” he said.The Ghar Wapsi drive that had peaked in the last few months of 2014 had the Opposition up in arms, stalling crucial legislative business in the Rajya Sabha where they insisted that the PM make a statement.Reports had suggested that the BJP leadership, worried that the furore over Ghar Wapsi could derail the government’s development agenda, had approached the RSS leadership to rein in the fringe elements.Earlier this month, RSS had grounded its Western UP in charge Rajeshwar Singh who had whipped up a controversy by organising mass conversions of non-Hindus into Hinduism in Agra.US President Barack Obama, in his concluding speech during his India visit last week, too had touched upon the topic of religious intolerance, emphasising that the strengths of democracies like the US and India lied in its diversity. “India will succeed so long as it is not splintered along lines of religious faith, splinter along any lines and it is unified as one nation,” he had said.