The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has condemned the decision of the International University, Dimapur (formerly, The Global Open University Nagaland), to name their recently inaugurated Central Library after Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It considered the decision “profoundly troubling and deserves condemnation from all sections of the society who believes in the secular and inclusive ethos of the Constitution of India”.

While lauding the establishment of the Library, the NPCC viewed that, to do so in honor of the founder ideologue of RSS, an organisation rooted in the idea of converting India into an RSS ideology conforming Hindutva State speaks to the intolerance and bigotry of the University.

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“The fact that the University scripted this disturbing act in Nagaland, which is home to a sizable population of one of the nation’s minority communities that have historically been at the receiving end of the RSS engineered majoritarian discriminatory agendas, is all the more abhorrent and is nothing short of putting salt to injury on the people of Nagaland and the minority communities living all over India as well,” expressed the NPCC.

Strongly denouncing what it considered as a divisive act of the International University, the NPCC asserted that it will oppose “their efforts to poison our children’s minds, unapologetically and unwaveringly.”