Election isn’t the ideology | The Indian Express

Election isn’t the ideology | The Indian Express

Written by Aakash Joshi |Updated: June 8, 2019 12:20:41 am

aakash.joshi@expressindia.com

Election isn’t the ideology

Elections are only a means to an end for the RSS’s millennial project.

Among the Hindu nationalist organisations that emerged in the 1920s, the RSS and its offshoots today hold the greatest sway. (PTI)

Is the cultural nationalism espoused by those that follow the ideologies of V D Savarkar and M S Golwalkar one that has an essential connection to democracy? Or, to ask the more fundamental question, is majoritarian politics at its core democratic?