What is wrong with ‘Hindutva’
ideology?
During one of the recent events, Narendra Modi came up with a “rainbow strategy” of
strengthening cultural and familial values, agricultural-rural development,
women’s empowerment and security, environmental protection, youth power,
democracy, and knowledge and skill development. He also appeared very intent on
wooing sections considered as the traditional support base of that party.
Initially, he had given rousing speeches in
different states of India, to make himself known to them, since the media
always projected him as only a local leader, who cannot win over the nation's
imagination. He successfully overcame such objections. But can he match the
image of Arvind Kejriwal who is being projected as a messiah of common man? When
compared with Kejriwal, Modi appears to have no plan or development vision for
the country etc.
Modi comes across as an opportunistic man. If he is
ready to tone down his extremist tendencies just for garnering votes, how can
we ever trust him to take the right decision in matters of crises? He has
recently expressed grief at the 2002 riots, tried to engage Mr Ramdev and
talked to the industry about his 5 T's of talent, tradition, tourism, trade and
technology which comes across as trying too hard and being too unscrupulous. He
has been promising IITs, IIMs in all states which is going to be truly disastrous
for the IIT and IIM brands since the
state of the new IITs and IIMs is pitiable. They can't afford any more erosion.
All in all there is nothing different in him from the rest of the politicians.
At one stage Modi did make mention of ‘Hindutva’ and
he was severely criticized for that. This is ridiculous. What is wrong with the
term ‘Hindutva’? In a 1995 judgment, the Supreme Court of India ruled that
"Ordinarily, Hindutva is understood as a way of life or a state of mind
and is not to be equated with or understood as religious Hindu fundamentalism. It
is clear that the 'term 'Hindutva' is still fallaciously associated with
Religious fundamentalism as referred to as 'Hindutva rhetorics' by the Congress
and other Parties who want to buy the minority votes. Negatively terming it as
'Hindutva rhetorics' is discriminatory. It is unfortunate that JDU and BJD, partiularly
Nitish Kumar, should also join this band wagon, more due to being cut up with Modi's
choice as PM ignoring their claims, a posture, selfish and against the true
spirit of Hindutva as reiterated by the Supreme Court judgement. Knowledgeable
minorities who understand fully 'Hindutva' and ‘be Indian and think Indian’
have no problem with this concept and terminology. Media should avoid
projecting 'Hindutva' in negative light.
Narendra Modi, no doubt, has done wonders for the
state of Gujarat, but he must understand that India is not Gujarat. He must
come up with alternative plans for people of different areas and creed. He must
understand what the common man wants and include it in his manifesto. Although
BJP is having influence throughout the country but it certainly cannot win 272+
on its own. He needs to make some solid alliances with other regional parties. He
needs to show the youth of the country the method by which he is going to
provide them with ample career opportunities. He needs to show the villagers
the methods he will adopt to boost agriculture and agricultural products. Most
importantly he needs to show how he is going to boost the GDP by mass scale
industrialization and make the Republic of India a better place to live in.
No comments:
Post a Comment