BJP & Hindutva

No compromise on Hindutva despite poll debacle: Rajnath
B.S. Satish Kumar

BANGALORE: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh on Saturday declared that there was no question of the party compromising on “Hindutva ideology” or its “original political thinking” just because it lost the recent Lok Sabha elections.

Participating in the inaugural session of a two-day State executive meeting of the BJP’s Karnataka unit in Bangalore, Mr. Singh asserted that the party ideology was “morally and constitutionally correct,” adding that Hindutva ideology was as important to the BJP as the Constitution was for the country.

Disagreeing with the views of some political analysts who said the BJP should rethink its ideology and political thinking in the wake of the parliamentary poll debacle, Mr. Singh said these elections were not a referendum on ideology.

“Not just for votes”

“The BJP is not in politics just for the sake of getting votes. We have a nation-building responsibility. Our ideology of Hindutva and ‘cultural idealism’ is a message of universal brotherhood as well as co-existence, and hence we are opposing religion-based discrimination and reservation,” he said.

No one is asking you to give up the Hindutva slogan Mr. Singh.
But this by itself will not give you votes in elections.
Man has got a few basic need which are to be fulfilled before he can think of anything else.
ROTI - KAPRA - MAKAN.
This is understood by all politicians and they have been using this slogan since Indira Gandhi's time, but none have fulfilled them. Although they encashed the votes.
These should be provided to ALL CITIZENS OF INDIA, irrespective of caste, religion,language,features or colour.
We are already burdened with our own population and cannot afford to allow infiltrators whether from Bangla Desh, Pakistan, Myanmar or any other country.
We want a corruption free India.
When your party fields criminals as its candidates it does not speak very highly of your party.
I had once thought yours was a party with a difference.
But the thirst for power has made you take people from other parties in your fold to form governments.
The result is, now there is no difference between your party and the others.
Just Hindutva will not get you votes.
Only good governance will win elections for you.
You still have your party government in some states.
If you can show us the difference, we will be convinced.
Give us an honest, clean, transparent corruption free government without raising divisive slogans,