The Hindu radical organization, Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh (RSS), has said that since its political wing, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has got the absolute majority to form the next government, the party should not have any hurdle now in building a Hindu temple at the disputed place where in 1992 the Babri mosque was pulled down by the RSS fanatics. The matter is since sub-judice too.
RSS also claimed that its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) did not have any objection to it.
This is the true face of the BJP and its parental organization. They issue such statements even before the Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi could take charge at the helm.
Such a communal mindset will for sure hold back India’s progress and will lead to anarchy and chaos in the country. This is also not the right way to build the image of the party, its leader Modi or the nation.
Should Modi want to correct his image in India and at the global level, he needs to give a rethink to such demands from RSS that will jeopardize his winning plank of growth and progress.
Modi has his responsibilities toward the country and he should take the whole country along, shunning divisive and exclusivist politics whatsoever.
That said, it would be hard for the BJP understandably to work without the RSS interference.
Yet, the new government cannot risk undertaking policies that will only sow hatred. For progress and the growth of the nation, which was Modi’s central plank during election, he has no way but to bring the country on one single platform.
India is sick of seeing riot after riot. It badly needs peace, which is also the only way to bring the economy to any extent of stability. — Anees Lokhande, Alkhobar
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