Mohan Bhagwat tells Dalit seers: RSS working to remove untouchability, must stay patient

Addressing the seers of the Dalit and Backward Classes communities, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said the problems dogging the Hindu society is untouchability and inequality, which exist only in the mind and not in the scriptures.

The Sarsangh Chalak was quoted as saying that there is a need to find a solution to the issue untouchability and inequality and the RSS is working on it. 

Till then, Hindus should have patience, Bhagwat told the gathering of seers in Karnataka's Chitradurga. 

The chief of Hindutva fountainhead insisted upon stopping religious conversion saying that it separates individuals from their roots.

The RSS chief emphasised upon focusing on Indian culture such as respecting the elders and treating women with dignity.

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"Modern way of teaching imparts education but it distances from culture. If we have to strengthen culture and commitment, then we have to associate ourselves with some form of worshipping, which the seers alone can do," Bhagwat told the religious heads.