The politics of Hindutva, which was once marginalized, has become mainstream politics today. What can be a bigger success for the Sangh than this that the major political parties of the country start competing in the name of soft/hot Hindutva.
Since 2014, there has been a big shift in the politics of India, after which it has become almost certain that all the political parties of the country will have to do their electoral politics on the basis of Hindutva, during which they should avoid mention of minorities or their supporters.
Will have to abstain and take care of national ie majority Hindu sentiments. The total gain after 2014 is that a different kind of nationalism has been accepted in India, based on religion, but it is not just the effect of 2014, but the reward of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s patient work which it has been doing since 1925 is going on.
In fact the Sangh has not always agreed with the concept of a new democratic, secular India that emerged from the womb of India’s independence movement where the state has no religion of its own and never hide its desire for a Hindu Rashtra.
In May 2014, Uttar Pradesh prepared the land, on the basis of which Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the country.
The results of the March 2017 assembly elections gave the Bharatiya Janata Party the power to make Yogi Adityanath the chief minister to fulfill the fascism agenda of the Sangh and the BJP in the country’s largest province.
India’s electoral system is currently working in a dramatic way in favor of the BJP. Only 31 percent votes gives it an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha and in Uttar Pradesh, it gets 80 percent seats with 39 percent votes.
On the other hand, Bahujan Samaj Party does not get any seat even after getting 20 percent votes in the Lok Sabha and despite getting more than 20 percent votes in the assembly, it has got only five percent seats.
               The question of Hindutva?
The politics of Hindutva, which was once marginalized, has become mainstream politics today. What can be a bigger success for the Sangh than this that the major political parties of the country start competing in the name of soft/hot Hindutva.
Today the situation has become such that the Congress, which claims the legacy of the freedom movement, has to replace secularism with the melody of Hindutva, its top leaders are forced to show their janeu and visit temples to prove themselves as Hindus.
The effect of this change will be more clearly visible in the years to come when the majority and the minority community themselves will start to feel that they are second class citizens in this country.
Obviously the far-reaching consequences of this change are not going to prove to be good for the country.
Due to the BJP being at the center of Indian politics, identity politics has become so dangerous that instead of discussing rising poverty, unemployment, expensive education, expensive life, discussions in Indian politics start happening on Hindu religion and Hindutva.
All these discussions happening in the politics of a poor country takes it far back.
On policy grounds the agenda of all the ruling parties is the same. Whether it is to promote liberalization in economic policies or whether it is a matter of privatization and globalization.
Apart from this there is a strategy of staying in the US camp in foreign policy or suppressing opposition through authoritarian law for which there are laws of AFSPA, UAPA and sedition.
Apart from uniformity in policies the meanings of political ideas and concepts are also changing. Earlier nationalism came from the struggle against foreign colonialism, but today’s nationalism has been limited only to the opposition of neighboring countries like Pakistan and China.
               The idea of secular india
Secularism was a modern idea in which religion and politics were kept separately, but now politics is being done in the name of religion. The Sangh Parivar is raising the flag of Hindutva.
It has been said about modern India that it is a country of unity in diversity but todays india is much more different than unity in diversity.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership wants to use the citizenship issue to redefine its Hindutva-inspired aggressive nationalism. On the contrary, anti-CAA protesters are opposing this law to assert the true spirit of Indian republicanism.
The whole chessboard and trickery of Hindutva depends on the nexus of the corporates. The exercise of making the corporate itself richer than ever is dependent on the corrupt practices of the political power backed by Hindutva. These two act as manure water for each other.
Look at the example of the media world itself. By hiding the infinite flaws of the BJP, only its branding is done through the media. Hiding all the flaws related to Vishwanath Corridor only Vishwanath Corridor was shown. The eyes of the camera are always removed from the misery and kept on the glare.
With this, misery never becomes a part of the discussion. The lies told repeatedly by the BJP are not recognized.
This is the same country which is still very backward on most parameters of development. Here more than 20 percent of the population is still illiterate.
More than 25 percent of the population is below the poverty line. The gap between the rich and the poor is only getting widened.
This is the same country which has just emerged from such a wave of epidemic which had turned the whole country into a huge cremation ground.
There is hardly any person whose family, relatives, friends or acquaintances have not even touched the house of death.
If we look beyond the political spectacles, then we will understand in what condition the country is at this time.
At this time the country needs a politics that tells how crores of people will get employment, how will the stove be lit in homes, how will children reach schools, how will the number of beds in hospitals, doctors and hospitals increase?
But what we as a citizen is seeing its just a state of fascism.
