>Source: thThe Hindu >(http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/05/10/stories/2002051002041200.htm)
Golwalkar and the BJP By Neena Vyas NEW DELHI >MAY 9. > >The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, virtually disowned the pro-Hitler views >expressed by "guruji" M.S. Golwalkar, a former `sarsanghchalak' of the Rashtriya >Swayamsevak Sangh, in the Rajya Sabha on May 6, but did not explain why in almost >every office of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and now, in several ministerial offices >at the Centre (including Parliament House), his portraits hang alongside those of >Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar. After all, German Government offices today surely >do not hang portraits of Hitler nor does the BJP decorate its offices with pictures >of Osama bin Laden. > > The fact is that both Mr. Vajpayee and the Union Home Minister, L.K. Advani, grew >up at the feet of "guruji" who is still revered as the most influential of all RSS >heads who gave the organisation — and the BJP, the political arm of the RSS — its >so-called "ideological'' moorings and formed the young minds of Mr. Vajpayee and Mr. >Advani during their impressionable years. > > Mr. Vajpayee dismissed Golwalkar's openly fascist views as "his own (`)'' and added >that the BJP had "nothing to do with the book (`)'' and that his party "had never >given its stamp of approval (`')'' to those views. But he did not say when and where >had the BJP (or the Jan Sangh) distanced itself formally from the views of Golwalkar. > > The question that needs to be asked loudly is why it has taken Mr. Vajpayee all of >60 years to distance his party from what Golwalkar had said? Why is it that in spite >of his criminally obnoxious views he is revered by the Sangh Parivar and considered >to be the guru of all gurus? In fact, contrary to what Mr. Vajpayee said, the BJP has >so far never repudiated Golwalkar's views, let alone denounce them. > > A close look at Golwakar and a comparison with what the RSS, the Vishwa Hindu >Parishad and the Bajrang Dal are saying almost everyday establishes the fact that the >views of the Sangh Parivar are no different from those of Golwalkar. > > And this is what "guruji'' had to say in `We on Our Nationhood Defined': "To keep >up the purity of the race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging >the country of the semitic races — the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been >manifested here...a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.'' The >Sangh Parivar insists that all Hindus are of Aryan origin, and denounces historians >who suggest that Aryans came from Central Asia at a later date to push the Dravidians >to the South. > > His "formula'' for nationhood was "five unities'' — geographical (a common >country), racial (all people belonging to one race), religious (all `nationals' must >follow the same faith), cultural (the same culture) and linguistic (a common >language). And he admitted that in India the "knotty problem'' was religion and >language. The "language" problem was resolved by (falsely) suggesting that there was >a unity since all Indian languages were derived from a common root language — >Sanskrit. Golwalkar's views on the "five unities'' perhaps explains the old Jan Sangh >slogan, "Hindi, Hindu, Hindusthan". > > The only problem left, according to Golwalkar, was that of the religious >minorities. The answer to the question why the Sangh Parivar activists even today see >themselves as the only true "nationalists'' and look upon Christians and Muslims as >"traitors'' can also be found in Golwalkar. > > This is what he said: "in Hindusthan, the land of the Hindus, lives and should live >the Hindu nation...only those movements are truly `national' as aim at re-building >and emancipating from its present stupor the Hindu nation...All others are either >traitors and enemies to the national cause...'' > > And finally, here was Golwalkar's solution to the minorities problem: the "foreign >elements'' (Christians and Muslims) may "live at the mercy'' of the "national race >(Aryan Hindus) as long as the national race may allow them to do so and to quit the >country at the sweet will of the national race. That is the only sound view on the >minorities' problem. That is the only logical and correct solution.'' > > The frightening thing is that this is exactly what has happened in Gujarat — the >minorities have been told that there is no place for them there and that they are >free to go to Pakistan. > > Even in Parliament, when Muslim MPs get up to speak, the BJP backbenchers are often >heard saying "go to Pakistan''. > >Copyright: 1995 - 2002 The Hindu _________________________________________________________ Click below to visit monsterindia.com and review jobs in India or Abroad http://monsterindia.rediff.com/jobs =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=- To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet ================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? 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