Chandigarh: Stating that every Indian city was within the reach of Chinese missiles, RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh) chief K S Sudershan on September 27 accused the successive governments at the Centre of paying "little attention" to developing or procuring modern weapons.

"China has developed missiles with which they can target every Indian city. In contrast, till India develops missiles with a range of 3000 km and above, the nearest Chinese town is going to be out of bounds for us," he said addressing a seminar in Chandigarh on 'Integrated Management of National Security'.

"Only now we have started procuring the weapons systems, which we should have had years earlier," Sudershan said.

"Over the centuries, we have suffered due to our humanitarian attitude and the belief that why should anyone use weapons against us when we will not be the first to attack. Why we suffered several defeats in history is due to our faulty thinking," he said.

"When enemies who waged wars against us had guns, we used to fight them with swords," the RSS chief said. "Over the years, we paid little attention to developing or procuring modern weapons system because of which our enemy had an upper edge. We also did not concentrate much on the need to have an efficient intelligence gathering mechanism."

The need of the hour was to equip not only the military with modern weapons system, "but also our para- military and police forces who has a crucial role to play in launching counter-offensive operations," he added.

PTI