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Emergence of right wing RSS and their dream of "Hindu Rashtra"

By Sheikh Imran. Dated: 11/17/2018 1:23:56 PM

The name changing spree witnessed throughout the major Indian cities these days may seem a normal thing which in reality is a deeper, vicious and sinister plot of the right wing Hindutva fundamentalists. The problem arising here isn't something new but decades old dating back to pre-independent India. In 1947, the year when India finally won her freedom after a long struggle it was divided into two countries; Pakistan was created out of India according to the "Two nation's Theory." India chose to stay a democratic and secular republic while Pakistan was created as a homeland for Muslims on religious lines. Lakhs of Muslims migrated to the newly formed Muslim Pakistan but there was a good number of Muslims who chose to stay in secular, democratic and pluralistic India with abundant diversities instead of migrating to Pakistan.
In such a country which is home to almost every religion and major tradition of the world, the political wing of the RSS, Bhartiya Janata party worked out a plan and started infusing that plan among the general population of India. The plan was to take India back to her original glory. (The most glorious period of India has been during Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's Period, a fact RSS and BJP will never acknowledge) and for this they presented the minorities especially the Muslims as barbarians and terrorists before the common Indians. The plan worked out well as they had chosen Narendra Modi as the Prime Ministerial Candidate, infamous for his alleged role in 2002 anti-Muslim Gujarat violence. He was projected as a "Virat Hindu" who had come to sanitise India of her problems, the Muslims and other minorities which according to the RSS ideologues and leaders had always been "foreign polluted races." Post 2014 RSS got control of the state, most of the ministers and MPs of the ruling BJP have been devout workers of RSS even the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been a full time worker of RSS in his prime.
The realization of the dream of that perceived "Hindu Rashtra" even goes against the basic foundations and the constitution on which the independent state of India was declared a republic. The longest serving Chief of the RSS M.S Golwalkar wrote a book named 'we and our nationhood defined' in which he demarcated the parameters of the nation and people who are an obstacle in the path of realization of their dream of a "Hindu Rashtra." Interestingly PM Modi has written a book on M.S Golwalkar and declared him a visionary ideologue and praised him heavily declaring him as his inspiration.
Golwalkar believed that 'nation' has lived in this land for lakhs of years caring two hoots about any scientific evidence about his fairy tale claims. In his view this land lost its divinity once the Hindus of this nation became complacent and numb and this land was overtaken by murderous bands of despoilers and marauders. He blamed such reasons from the past thousand years for the decline of Hindus and now he presents a Hindustan in front of people which he has already defined in his book and the goal is to rebuild that great "Hindu Rashtra." Among many unique characteristics of the "Hindu Rashtra" is the belief that only Hindus have a right to be a live and prosper in it. In his book we and our nationhood defined on page 99 he bluntly expresses his assumptions.
"In this country, Hindustan, the Hindu race with its Hindu religion, Hindu culture and Hindu language completes the Nation concept: that, in fine, in Hindustan exists and must exist the ancient Hindu nation and naught else but the Hindu nation. All those belonging to the national i.e Hindu race, religion, culture and language, naturally fall out of the pale of real national life".
In their works we can easily find out the supremacist, violent and hate filled perception they have for people of other faiths and those speaking languages other than having sanskritised and Brahminical outlook. "The Hindu Rashtra" of the RSS consists of people speaking sanskritised languages leaving out Dravidian family languages and many tribal languages. In today's world we can see this theory being turn into a reality by the imposition of Hindi. Not only this M.S Golwalkar also drew heavy inspiration from Nazis of Germany during the time he was writing his book in 1930s' the time Adolf Hitler seized the power in Germany and started mass scale executions and extermination of Jews of Germany.
The offshoots of such "ideologues" have become todays' rulers of India, their hate filled speeches, inflammatory and instigating speeches are all well connected with the ideals which are laid down by RSS & her sister party leaders over the time. For Adolf Hitler the Jews of Germany were a polluted race and hence he termed them as "The Undesirables", these current crop of leaders having an inclination towards sangh see Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Christians and Jews through the same spectrum as Hitler used to see the Jews and communists in Nazi Germany.
To create a frenzy and mobilise people, to popularize their bigotry from time to time they coin out terms like "Love Jihad" "Ghar Wapsi" and nowadays they've resorted to changing names having even a negligible roots of Muslim or Christian tradition. This trend however goes against the values and traditions of what India had actually stood for at the time of Independence. In 1947 leaders talked about inclusiveness, diversity, liberty and equality while the members of RSS and her sister parties remained isolated from this notion as their idea off Hindusthan was totally reverse as compared to the choice India had made in 1947 during partition. The communal designs of such right wing leaders have only stressed on reviving Golwalkar's hypothetical mythological Hindusthan in which every non Hindu would be turned into a slave and would be treated as a third class citizen.
The real anti-nationals and enemies of Indian state are these leaders who undermine the Constitution of India, by talking about an exclusive "Hindu Rashtra" they are violating the basic fundamental of Indian Constitution. Article 14 of India's constitution guarantees equality before law to each of its citizens and there are many such provisions in the Constitution which are mentioned in the constitution to safeguard the rights and dignity of Indian citizens apart from their religion, race, region or sexuality. This sinister conspiracy of these Hindutva crazed maniacs shall be opposed tooth and nail and such communal leaders should be shunted out of power and politics once and for all in the largers interest, growth and development of the country. People shall turn back to the traditions and values India held in 1947 at Independence during partition.
(The author is a resident of Kishtwar and can be contacted at email: imu3133@gmail.com)