BJP Independent of RSS: Are You Joking Mr. Nadda?
The president of BJP in conversation with
journalists, Liz
Mathew and P
Vaidyanathan Iyer (The
Indian Express, Delhi, May 18, 2024) claimed that
“RSS is a cultural organisation and we are a
political organisation…It’s (RSS is) an ideological front. The RSS and the BJP
have their own areas of working very clearly established”. [https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/j-p-nadda-interview-bjp-modi-9337032/]
It was not for the first time that this lie was
spoken about relationship between RSS and BJP. Organiser, English mouthpiece
of the RSS, in its editorial of February 6, 2000 relied on this lie when wrote:
“The RSS is not a political
party. It does not take part in elections nor its office bearers are supposed
to become office bearers of any political party. The RSS has no election symbol
nor its leadership or members have ever endeavoured to seek political office.
It is a social-cultural organization trying to inspire all national activity.”
We must compare this claim of
the RSS with the following two statements of Golwalkar, who headed the RSS
after the death of KB Hedgewar, and is considered the greatest ideologue of the
organization till date. The first statement tells us about the kind of
personnel who are sent to manipulate politics and what is expected of them by
the RSS. While delivering a speech on March 16, 1954, in Sindi, Wardha, he
said,
“If we say that we are part of
the organization and accept its discipline then selectiveness has no place in
life. Do what is told. If told to play kabaddi, play kabaddi; told to hold
meeting then meeting….For instance some of our friends were told to go and work
for politics that does not mean that they have great interest or inspiration
for it. They don’t die for politics like fish without water. If they are told
to withdraw from politics then also there is no objection. Their discretion is
just not required.”
[Golwalkar,
MS, Shri Guruju Samgr Darshan (collected works of
Golalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur (RSS publication house), vol.
III, n. d., p. 32.]
The second statement is also
very significant and clearly highlights the high level of political ambitions
of the RSS. While addressing the leading RSS cadres at Indore on March 5, 1960
he said:
“We know this also that some
of our Swayamsevaks work in politics. There they have to organize
according to the needs of work public meetings, processions etc., have to raise
slogans. All these things have no place in our work. However, like the
character in a play whatever role has been assigned should be portrayed with
best of capability. But sometimes Swayamsevaks go beyond the role
assigned to a performer (nat) as they develop over-zealousness in their
hearts, to the extent that they become useless for this work. This is not good.”
[Ibid, vol. IV, pp. 4-5.]
We find here Golwalkar referring to the Swayamsevaks
loaned to political satellite as ‘nat’ or performers who are meant to
dance to the tunes of the RSS. This fact should not be missed here that
Golwalkar’s above design of controlling the political arm was elaborated in
March 1960 almost nine years after the establishment of Jan Sangh (the
forerunner of the BJP) in 1951.
BJP NOT INDEPENDENT OF RSS
The RSS leadership keeps on
harping that BJP is an independent political organization and does not work
under the dictates of the RSS. It is pertinent that one compares this
information with the facts available in the official publications of the RSS.
The central publication house of the RSS, the Suruchi Prakashan, has
published a book, Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par (The Road to Glory) in 1997
giving details of more than 40 organizations created by the RSS for different
tasks. The BJP as a political organization figures prominently in it, clubbed
with the ABVP, Hindu Jagaran Manch, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Swadeshi Jagaran
Manch and Sanskar Bharti. The preface of
the book itself declares that,
“Without the knowledge of the
different kinds of activities of the Sawyamsevaks (the volunteers of the
RSS) the introduction of the RSS is incomplete. Keeping this in mind it has
been attempted in this book to produce the brief information about the diverse
activities of the Sawyamsevaks. This book covers the organizational
status till 1996…We believe that this book will prove to be of use for those
who want to understand the RSS with the Swyamsevaks.”
[Sapre, Sadanand D., Parm Vaibhav Ke Path Per,
Suruchi (central publication house of RSS), Delhi, 1997, p. 7.]
In this book the BJP figures at number 3 in the list of
prominent organizations created by the RSS. This book gives details of the
creation and development of Bhartiya Jan Sangh (the forerunner of the BJP) and
then BJP by the RSS for purposes laid down by the latter. It is to be noted
that PM of India and his senior ministers, most of the present BJP chief
ministers and Governors publically declare to be RSS cadres. JP Nadda too
proudly declares to be a member of RSS.
We will have to find out the
answer why suddenly Nadda declares independence of BJP from RSS. In fact, such
a situation was visualized by Golwalkar in 1960 itself when he stated that “sometimes
Swayamsevaks go beyond the role assigned to a performer (nat) as
they develop over-zealousness in their hearts, to the extent that they become
useless for this work. This is not good.” Mohan Bhagwat and his key
confidants leading RSS today is no match to Golwalkar who could control its
political child, BJP. Modi (trained by Golwalkar as a political leader), a
Vishwa guru, Hindu hirday samrat and Hindutva icon has made RSS led by Hindutva
minions redundant. RSS is paying for creating a Leviathan (a natural corollary
of combining religion with politics) to its own peril. Golwalkar declared as
early as 1940 that “RSS inspired by one flag, one leader and one
ideology is lighting the flame of Hindutva in each and every corner of this
great land”. [Golwalkar, MS, Shri Guruju Samgr Darshan, vol. I, p.
11] Modi fulfils this dream of RSS fully. Hindutva zealots celebrated when Modi
marched on demolishing secularism, constitutional reservations, national
institutions and communal harmony but forgot that if it had to be ONE LEADER Mohan
Bhagwat and his Hindutva Empire too had to go!
Shamsul
Islam
May 19,
2024
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