New Delhi: Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has implied that converting people to Christianity was the objective of Mother Teresa’s service to the poor. His comment at a village in Rajasthan has provoked outrage.
“I worked wid Mother Teresa for a few months at Nirmal Hriday ashram in Kolkata. She was a noble soul. Pl spare her,” said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a tweet this morning.
On Monday, Mr Bhagwat was attending a function organized by an NGO at a village near Bharatpur when he said, “Here, the service isn’t like Mother Teresa’s. Her service would have been good but it used to have one objective, to see that the person who was being helped felt obliged to become a Christian.”
He added, “The question is not about conversion but if this (conversion) is done in the name of service, then that service gets devalued. In our country, service is neutral,” he added.
The RSS, the ideological mentor of the ruling BJP, denied the comment in a tweet.
