EULOGISING AND THE APPROPRIATION OF GANDHI ;
Symbolizing significant political event as well as political about turn,Prime Minister Narendra Modi,has made well planned statements eulogising Mahatma Gandhi.The political somersault by RSS is surprising as well as astonishing because RSS and its political wing BJP has hated Gandhi from the core of their heart.Though Modi has been continuously talking about Gandhi,but he has not uttered a word about Gandhi's biggest political weapon and experiment 'Ahimsa'.It will be very pertinent to mention here that the RSS detests Ahimsa and calls it "impotency"and in its convoluted sense of history,blames non violence for 'foreign invaders' ruling the Indian subcontinent. The RSS chief M S Golwalkar has termed Gandhi's Ahimsa as "great betrayal"perpetrated over Indians.Historically speaking ,the RSS was born as a reaction to Gandhi's call to support Khilafat movement in 1919,which was defined by Hindu conservative's as an attempt to appease Muslims.
It is indeed salutary to recall ,what Vallabhbhai Patel wrote in his letter of July 18,1948 to Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee :-"there is no doubt in my mind that the extreme section of Hindu Mahasabha was involved in the conspiracy.The activities of the RSS constituted a clear threat to the existence of government and state."
He wrote again on 11 September 1948 to the Sangh Chalak of RSS:-"the speeches of the Sangh leaders are poisionous.It is a result of the venom that Mahatma Gandhi has been assassinated.The followers of Sangh have celebrated Gandhi's assassination by distributing sweets."
Any way,let us forget history and be wise and mature enough -not to live with past.Otherwise also Sangh Parivar has always denied its hand in the brutal assassination of Mahatma-though their denial has been always questionable.Now today let us believe that RSS has finally and formally surrendered to the man whose memory it has worked so hard to erase.May be,RSS has rediscovered and redefined in 21st century the political virtues of Mahatma's philosophy and its implication today-hence the eulogising and appropriation of Gandhism.
Without any prejudice or any doubt about the latest political hypothesis of Sangh Parivar,it will be very pertinent to know and improvise our political knowledge :-
# Whether Saffron brigade has shunned the concept of violence and accepted Ahimsa as a core value ?
# Whether RSS has discarded Golwalker's hypothesis and finally accepted Gandhi's formulation of Hindu-Muslim unity ?
# Whether it has 'forgiven' Gandhi For accepting the division of India ?
# Whether it has modified its map of Akhand Bharat,which includes Afghanistan,Pakistan, Nepal, Burma and Sri Lanka ?
# Whether RSS has finally realised that brutal killing of Mahatma was not just vadh but a criminal act and Godse was rightly sent to the gallows ?
Symbolizing significant political event as well as political about turn,Prime Minister Narendra Modi,has made well planned statements eulogising Mahatma Gandhi.The political somersault by RSS is surprising as well as astonishing because RSS and its political wing BJP has hated Gandhi from the core of their heart.Though Modi has been continuously talking about Gandhi,but he has not uttered a word about Gandhi's biggest political weapon and experiment 'Ahimsa'.It will be very pertinent to mention here that the RSS detests Ahimsa and calls it "impotency"and in its convoluted sense of history,blames non violence for 'foreign invaders' ruling the Indian subcontinent. The RSS chief M S Golwalkar has termed Gandhi's Ahimsa as "great betrayal"perpetrated over Indians.Historically speaking ,the RSS was born as a reaction to Gandhi's call to support Khilafat movement in 1919,which was defined by Hindu conservative's as an attempt to appease Muslims.
It is indeed salutary to recall ,what Vallabhbhai Patel wrote in his letter of July 18,1948 to Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee :-"there is no doubt in my mind that the extreme section of Hindu Mahasabha was involved in the conspiracy.The activities of the RSS constituted a clear threat to the existence of government and state."
He wrote again on 11 September 1948 to the Sangh Chalak of RSS:-"the speeches of the Sangh leaders are poisionous.It is a result of the venom that Mahatma Gandhi has been assassinated.The followers of Sangh have celebrated Gandhi's assassination by distributing sweets."
Any way,let us forget history and be wise and mature enough -not to live with past.Otherwise also Sangh Parivar has always denied its hand in the brutal assassination of Mahatma-though their denial has been always questionable.Now today let us believe that RSS has finally and formally surrendered to the man whose memory it has worked so hard to erase.May be,RSS has rediscovered and redefined in 21st century the political virtues of Mahatma's philosophy and its implication today-hence the eulogising and appropriation of Gandhism.
Without any prejudice or any doubt about the latest political hypothesis of Sangh Parivar,it will be very pertinent to know and improvise our political knowledge :-
# Whether Saffron brigade has shunned the concept of violence and accepted Ahimsa as a core value ?
# Whether RSS has discarded Golwalker's hypothesis and finally accepted Gandhi's formulation of Hindu-Muslim unity ?
# Whether it has 'forgiven' Gandhi For accepting the division of India ?
# Whether it has modified its map of Akhand Bharat,which includes Afghanistan,Pakistan, Nepal, Burma and Sri Lanka ?
# Whether RSS has finally realised that brutal killing of Mahatma was not just vadh but a criminal act and Godse was rightly sent to the gallows ?
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