Ignorant Opposition Let’s Fake Women Savior PM Modi Go
Scot-Free
Prime Minister Narendra Modi presenting himself as savior of
Indian women while speaking in support of Women’s Reservation Bill 2026 said
that reservation for women in legislative bodies was the need of the hour to
make Indian democracy more vibrant and participative. He lamented that it was
“deeply unfortunate” that it was delayed over the decades. He added that despite
repeated efforts to provide women with their rightful place in democratic
institutions by the previous governments it was not passed. He underlined the
fact that women who constituted nearly half of India’s population “Committees
were made, and bill drafts were introduced, but they never saw the light of
day”. Sadly, as a RSS cadre his Avtar as a Messiha of women is fraught
with lies, dishonesty and shamelessness.
Not going into the glut of sex scandals involving RSS top
cadres which were exposed by RSS leading ideologues like Balraj Madhok (Zindagi
kaa Safar 3: Deendayal Upadhyay kee Hatya se Indira Gandhi kee Hatya Tak, 2003)
and Hemendra Nath Pandit (The End of a Dream: An Inside View of the RSS Today,
1950) we should scrutinize the RSS archives to know the horrendous male
chauvinistic anti-Hindu women ideology and practices by RSS.
- Inside RSS: Males Are
Volunteers And Women Are Servants
RSS founded in 1925 was to be an exclusive male
organization, its cadres were to be known as swayamsevak or volunteers. The RSS top brass made its intentions
clear of treating women as of lower status than males when it decided to start
its women wing; Rashtr Sevika Samiti
in 1936. Its nomenclature made it clear that women members were not called as swayamsevak or volunteers but Rashtr Sevika (maids for the nation) or
female servants of the Hindu nation. This identity of women in the Rashtr Sevika Samiti as servants was not
only a technical issue but outcome of RSS’ attitude towards Hindu women which
glorifies the subservient role of women in the society.
These are Rashtr
Sevika Samiti members [who according to its website number around three
lakh] only who pledge to maintain ‘faithfulness/virginity’, remain ‘modest’,
‘steadfast’, and not fall prey to ‘immorality and evil habits’. The RSS male
swayamsevaks make no such commitment.
2.
RSS Demands Manusmriti As Constitution Of
India
In fact, this anti-woman attitude
of RSS was glaringly visible when on the eve of the ratification of the
democratic secular constitution by the Indian Constituent Assembly [November
26, 1949] it rejected it and demanded promulgation of Manusmriti or Manu
Code as the constitution of India. A perusal of chapters V and IX will show how
Hindu women were to be treated as sub-human creatures.
Laws of Manu concerning women
1. Day and night woman must be kept in
dependence by the males (of) their (families), and, if they attach themselves
to sensual enjoyments, they must be kept under one’s control. (chapter IX/sloka
2)
2. Her father protects (her) in
childhood, her husband protects (her) in youth, and her sons protect (her) in
old age; a woman is never fit for independence. (IX/3)
3. Considering that the highest duty of
all castes, even weak husbands (must) strive to guard their wives. (IX/6)
4. Women, confined in the house under
trustworthy and obedient servants, are not (well) guarded; but those who of
their own accord keep guard over themselves, are well guarded. (IX/12)
5. Women do not care for beauty, nor is
their attention fixed on age; (thinking), ‘(It is enough that) he is a man,’
they give themselves to the handsome and to the ugly. (IX/14)
6. Through their passion for men,
through their mutable temper, through their natural heartlessness, they become
disloyal towards their husbands, however carefully they may be guarded in this
(world). (IX/15)
7. (When creating them) Manu allotted
to women (a love of their) bed, (of their) seat and (of) ornament, impure
desires, wrath, dishonesty, malice, and bad conduct. (IX/17)
8. For women no (sacramental) rite (is
performed) with sacred texts, thus the law is settled; women (who are)
destitute of strength and destitute of (the knowledge of) Vedic texts, (are as
impure as) falsehood (itself), that is a fixed rule. (IX/18)
- GANDHI PEACE PRIZE TO GITA PRESS Which
Denigrates Hindu Women
Gita Press,
Gorakhpur was awarded the 2022 Gandhi Peace Prize, the prestigious
international award instituted by Government of India in 1995 while
commemorating 125th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. It was to
be conferred on those individuals/organizations which contributed to carrying
forward the ideals espoused by him. The jury which conferred it to Gita Press was
headed by PM Modi.
PM Modi
congratulated Gita Press, “on being conferred the Gandhi Peace Prize 2021. They
have done commendable work over the last 100 years towards furthering social
and cultural transformations among the people,” Incidentally, Gita Press
was also celebrating its centenary in 2022.
Award to Gita Press was not only shocking for all those who
cherished Gandhian values, humanism and civilized norms but all those who
opposed gender-based persecution. It was a sad day for the Indian
democratic-secular Republic as that Modi government idolized Gita Press which
publishes ‘Hindu’ literature propagating Sati and beating
of women. It
publishes mass popular religious
‘Hindu’ literature which opposes remarriage of
widowed/divorced/discarded women, seeking employment by them and even reporting
rape as we will find by the perusal of some of its publications. According to
this literature it is the way for Hindu women to end in swarg or paradise.
Gita Press
has published more than a dozen titles on the subject, the most prominent of
which are: Nari Shiksha (Education of
Women) by Hanuman Prasad Poddar, Grahsth
Mein Kaise Rahen [How to Lead a Household Life] by Swami Ramsukhdas, Striyon ke Liye Kartawya Shiksha (Education
of Duties for Women) and Nari Dharm (Religion
of Woman) by Jai Dayal Goindka and a special issue of magazine Kalyan on women. These are available in
English and other Indian languages. The English titles are popular with the
non-resident Indians.
Some
glimpses of anti-Hindu women content of Gita Press publications:
'What
should the wife do if her husband beats her and troubles her?” Swami Ramsukhdas
offers the following sagely advice to the battered wife and her parents:
"The
wife should think that she is paying her debt of her previous life and thus her
sins are being destroyed and she is becoming pure. When her parents come to
know this, they can take her to their own house because they have not given
their daughter to face this sort of bad behaviour."
And there
is another piece of heavenly advice for a rape victim and her husband.
"As
far as possible, it is better for woman (rape victim) to keep mum. If her
husband also comes to know of it, he too should keep mum. It is profitable for
both of them to keep quiet."
Can a woman
remarry? The answer is very straight forward,
"When
once a girl is given away in marriage as charity by her parents, she does not
remain virgin any more. So how can she be offered as charity to anyone else? It
is beastliness to remarry her."
But can a
man remarry? No problem,
"A man
can have a second wife for an issue in order to be free from the debt which he
owes to manes (pitr-rin) according to
the ordinances of the scriptures, if there is no issue from the first
wife."
But this is
not the only reason for which a man is allowed re- marriage. A man, "whose
desire for pleasure has not been wiped out, can get remarried because if he
does not get remarried, he will indulge in adultery and go to prostitutes and will incur a badly
sin. Therefore, in order to escape the sin and maintain the decorum he should
get remarried according to the ordinance of scriptures."
Of course,
no widow is allowed to remarry. However, she may be allowed to choose to be
some male's concubine.
"If
she cannot maintain her character, instead of indulging in adultery here and
there, she should accept her affinity for a person and live under his
protection."
Is it
proper for woman to demand equal rights? The sagely answer is quite
unambiguous:
"No,
it is not proper. In fact, a woman has not the right of equality with man…in
fact it is ignorance or folly which impels a woman to have desire for the right
of equality with man. A wise person is he/she who is satisfied with less rights
and more duties."
This
literature about Hindu women openly preaches and glorifies the ghastly practice
of Sati. To the question:
"Is 'Sati Pratha’ (viz., the tradition of the wife being cremated with the dead
body of the husband on the funeral pyre) proper or improper?”
The sagely
answer is:
"A
wife's cremation with the dead body of her husband on the funeral pyre is not a
tradition. She, in whose mind truth and enthusiasm come, burns even without
fire and she does not suffer any pain while she burns. This is not a tradition
that she should do so, but this is her truth, righteousness and faith in
scriptural decorum…It means that it is not a tradition. It is her own religious
enthusiasm. On this topic Prabhudatta Brahmachariji has written a book whose
title is Cremation of a Wife with her
Husband’s Dead Body is the Backbone of Hindu Religion, it should be
studied.”
Apart from
glorifying Sati, the Gita Press publication like Nari Dharm produces dozens of shlokas from ‘Hindu’ scriptures to
establish that women are not capable of enjoying independence. This book begins
with the chapter swatantarta ke liye
striyon ki ayogeta (incapability of women for independence). Another
notable facet of this literature is that long a list of rituals is laid down to
be practiced by pregnant women so that 'bright, talented, brave and religious
inclined son' is born.
Unfortunately,
parliamentary opposition which intends to confront PM Modi on his hoax of love
for women did not confront him with the above stated facts due to ignorance of
the dehumanized ideology and practices of RSS. The moral of the story is that
RSS-BJP government juggernaut led by PM Modi is able to befool the women
specially Hindu women of India not due to its respect for women but because
opponents are totally ignorant of the criminality of RSS. For Modi ignorance of
his opponents is blessing!
Shamsul
Islam
April 17,
2026
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