Saner elements in RSS should rein in forecasters of fantasy in their midst | The Indian Express

Saner elements in RSS should rein in forecasters of fantasy in their midst | The Indian Express

Written by Sudheendra Kulkarni |Updated: March 27, 2019 8:53:30 am

The writer was an aide to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Saner elements in RSS should rein in forecasters of fantasy in their midst

Even as the Sangh wrestles with its own fixity about Akhand Bharat, some of its leaders, often, become such over-enthusiastic warriors for their cause that they throw all rationality to the wind.

Some people in the Sangh seem to have been so carried away by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “muscular” response to Pulwama that their extrapolation of the future political consequences of IAF’s attack on Balakot has reached extreme limits. (Photo: Monica Chaturvedi/File)

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological mother of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other Sangh Parivar organisations, has two conceptual and psychological fixities when it comes to the past and future of India. One, it believes that India is a Hindu Rashtra de facto, and should become so de jure. Two, India was Akhand Bharat yesterday, is not so today because of Partition in 1947, but should become one again tomorrow.