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| RSS under severe attack for undermining 'Modi, Hindus and India' | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 29: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is under severe attack. The supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have turned against the RSS, the so-called cultural organization, which it is not in the true sense of the term. Its critics hold the power-brokers in the RSS responsible for the decline in the PM's popularity as well as for undermining the country's position at the international level. The Sangh Parivar is dragging Modi, the Hindus and India down," they are saying. They are holding the RSS responsible for the ignominious defeat of the BJP in the crucial Bihar Assembly elections. "Is it possible that the extra caution is because of internal weaknesses, chinks and possible sabotage from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (or sangh Parivar) than from external threats? The mess up caused by Mohan Bhagwat during the Bihar elections has been widely reported and acknowledged by political observers. The Gujarat local body election in rural areas showed the impact of the Patel reservation issue and rural disenchantment with the BJP performance. These are signs of a well coordinated effort being made by anti-Modi forces, including the sangh Parivar. The aim is to prevent consolidation of his position by forcing him into fire fighting mode with a series of regular well-coordinated controversies to damage the faith of his support base," they are asserting. They are adding that "the Prime Minister increasingly looks like a person not in control of his party and associated ideological fraternity that is running amok, generating a controversy a day. It seems the sangh parivar is not interested in the 'Ek Bharat Shresht Bharat' idea of the Prime Minister and is working at cross purposes to derail it". "The Prime Minister needs support from all Indians irrespective of their socio-religious affiliations for India to emerge as a force on the global stage. The economy is leaky and under-performing and the security scenario is precarious after prolonged neglect of defense preparedness under the UPA. In this delicate scenario, why is the sangh parivar leadership behaving in an irresponsible manner weakening the position of Narendra Modi with idiotic actions and statements? Is there a deeper malaise within the sangh parivar? Is the sangh parivar inherently incapable of serious ideas and keeping the interests of country above its own self-interest and petty hate mongering?"
But more than that, the critics of the RSS and supporters of Modi are also attacking the RSS leadership for the problems the Hindus in India have been facing. "A deeper analysis would show that the sangh parivar with an ideology frozen in the pre-independence era has become an albatross around the neck of Hindu society. After independence, for all practical purposes, India has been a country with a Hindu ethos and a huge Hindu imprint on the state. There are some issues related to minority appeasement, education and culture as a consequence of prolonged Nehruvian era and vote bank politics, to deal with which a political party with an organic national vision rooted in Indian soil would suffice. In post-independent India, with majority Hindu population, a movement for Hindu rashtra or Hindu state is redundant, particularly when the movement itself claims the proposed Hindu rashtra would be non-discriminatory to other religions. An Indian state without pampering minorities and not averse to identifying with indigenous culture and history is as good as Hindu rashtra, though not explicitly proclaimed. If Hindu rashtra means complete overhaul of the existing Indian state, then obviously the sangh parivar has neither capacity nor declared plan or process to achieve it. Then there is this spin that the sangh parivar exists to serve Hindus. All its fronts serve the cause of Hindus, to keep them united, to promote patriotism in every activity - so goes the argument. Do they exist to serve and empower Hindus or make them slaves to a single pyramid type central authority on the model of the Christian church? Hindus can serve themselves and their culture better and also remain secular in true spirit if both Hindu and secular NGOs keep away from them. The only help Hindus need to sustain their culture is a state that doesn't actively discriminate against them. The sangh parivar pretends like a guardian of Hindu security in their only country. But it is the Indian state and armed forces that guarantee security of the country and secure Hindu civilisation from predatory forces from outside the country. Within the country, the sangh parivar has for a century remained impotent against silent internal demographic aggression through religious conversion by evangelists and jihadi elements sponsored by foreign sources. In the face of this serious challenge all it did is clamor for a ban on religion conversions," they are saying while holding the RSS responsible for the plight of the Hindu community in country that belongs to them. "The excesses of Nehruvian secularism and its prolonged influence on Indian discourse have given some legitimacy and respectability to the ideological position of sangh parivar. In a multi-party democracy an alternative nationalistic political platform would have been enough to challenge the Nehruvian distortions of the Indian state. It is not far from truth to suggest that the sangh parivar political activism outside the political sphere even after India became independent gave an opportunity to Nehru to emerge as a champion of secularism. He used the bogey of Hindu fundamentalism to marginalise Hindu-sympathetic conservative elements from his own party; his daughter took it forward and patronized secularism beyond proportion by aggressively promoting the anti-Hindu, leftist establishment in higher education and the arts. Did the sangh parivar achieve any significant success in promoting Hindu interests and causes in almost a century of its existence? The answer is emphatically negative. Ultimately, it ended up supporting and interfering in a political party and tried to achieve state power through it. But what is the logic of pretending to be a cultural NGO and aspiring for power; is it to enjoy power without accountability? Why can't the sangh parivar be open about its political ambitions and directly join the political process?," they are also saying. They are also lambasting the RSS for enjoying power and playing cheap political games sans any responsibility. "The sangh parivar argument that politics is inherently a corrupt process and to maintain own sanity and purity it keeps away from active politics doesn't cut ice. If direct politics is a threat to its purity and purpose, indirect interference without accountability in a political party and government is a much bigger corrupting factor not limited to the sangh Parivar, but also a threat to the nation," they are saying. So much so, they are saying that contrary to bringing all Indians together, sangh parivar is actively antagonizing even Hindus. "Because of its well established association with the BJP, the present government will have to suffer the consequences of the mindless or most likely deliberate political acts and statements of the sangh parivar," they are saying. They are, in addition, urging Prime Minister Modi to assert his authority and show the RSS its place. "Narendra Modi maintained his appeal to Hindus and Gujaratis and neutralized both sangh parivar and secular power brokers in the power game in Gujarat and emerged as a popular leader. There is no reason why Narendra Modi shouldn't attempt a similar strategy in Delhi, but for some inexplicable reason he is very cautious; perhaps the Delhi establishment is too thick and indispensable at this time. But if the BJP has to have any chance in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has no option than to break this deep nexus of power brokers across ideologies in Delhi," they have been saying while urging the Prime Minister to neutralize the influence of the RSS. The upshot of their whole critique on the RSS is that the sangh parivar with all its pretensions of service to Hindus is dragging the Hindus, the Prime Minister and India down deeper into the abyss. "Perhaps, after securing the position of Amit Shah as BJP president for second time and keeping economy on track, he (PM Modi) may become more politically assertive, but then it may be too late. The sangh parivar with all its pretensions of service to Hindus is dragging them down deeper into the abyss" is the moral of the campaign the supporters of PM Modi have unleashed against the RSS. What the critics of the RSS have been saying just can't be dismissed. For, there is ample truth in what they have saying. Indeed, the concerned Hindus have started terming the RSS as an "essentially anti-Hindu organization". This is an extreme view but, then, India is a democratic country where the people have the right to fair criticism. |
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