Live-in relationships against humanity, Indian culture: RSS

Mar 16, 2012 |

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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Friday said live-in relationships must be discouraged in the country as it is ‘against humanity and Indian culture’.

"The Sangh is against live-in relationships because it is against humanity, and also against the Indian traditions and culture," RSS joint secretary Dattatraya Hosbale said, speaking to reporters on the first day of 'Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha', the outfit's highest decision-making body.

Live-in relationships should be discouraged and even in the West, religious leaders are voicing concern over the trend, he said.

"It is our responsibility to keep the institution of family intact," Hosbale said, when asked to respond to a recent initiative of a local NGO to find live-in matches for senior citizens.

Hosbale also said that RSS endorsed ‘a three-generation family system, consisting of grand-parents, parents and children’.

"If there is a problem, a single grandparent can live in 'Gurukul Ashrams' promoted by (the late RSS veteran) Nanaji Deshmukh," he said.

He also said the Sangh advocated a no-TV day concept.

Conservation of natural resources is also being discussed among other issues at the ongoing meeting.

"RSS is of the view that all natural resources, particularly water, should be treated as the property of the public, and a resolution on the issue would be passed," he said.

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