CLASH OF IDEAS OR PERSONALITY?

Bikash Choudhury



Rahul Gandhi proceeded on a two weeks of leave of absence from the
Congress Party and important Budget sessions of Parliament. Gandhi
scion is no green horn in politics to behave in so immature fashion.
Apparently he listened to RSS chief’s statement on Mother Teresa
before it was delivered and therefore he immediately planned for his
holidays knowing fully well his job of reviving the grand old and much
tired Congress Party is being done meticulously by Sangha Parivar FoC.
Yogi Adityanath and his ilk are continuously harping on Ghar Wapsi,
India as Hindu Rastra and many others which have started to vitiate
the conducive atmosphere for socio economic progress for which BJP got
an unprecedented mandate on Governance and Development last summer.
Interestingly, BJP member of parliament Yogi Adityanath says “India
does not have problems of poverty or development” and Praveen Togadia
of VHP is very concerned about the marginal fall in Hindu population
without knowing the demography also a function of socioeconomic
progress and the same could happen with Indian Muslims also if they
were put in a fast track upward socioeconomic mobility by GoI and
respective State Governments. Irony is one of the most powerful prime
minister of recent times is helplessly watching his positive mandate
being torn apart non-other than the Sangha Parivar from the sidelines;
and, sadly comparisons  are being drawn of him and Man Mohan Singh,
his predecessor. People are very inquisitive to know what has changed
in these nine months that RSS chief all of a sudden became insecure on
his seat. The answer lies on the massive mandate Modi received on
Governance and Development and his subsequent actions on foreign
policy and domestic affairs that might have propelled  a few of PM’s
ambitious cabinet colleagues to impress upon the RSS chief to test the
waters on the contentious agenda which could clip the wings of Modi a
bit or pull him down a notch lower; knowing fully well that Modi works
to a plan and his agenda on Governance and Development would take
little time to bring the fruits for the people.


Those who have listened to RSS Chief Sri Mohan Bhagwat’s speech on
Rakshaya Bandhan at Bhubaneswar last year that apparently went on for
ninety minutes must vouch for his deep incite on spirituality,
religion, culture, science and metaphysics. His recent pronouncements
must have come as a shocker. One would agree with him on the baggage’s
of history where Hindus have to pay Jijiya Tax to practice their faith
in their own land and their places of worship and globally acclaimed
educational portals like Nalanda University were raised to ground
without any intervention or provocation. Further, tell tale account of
East India Company and British Empire that lorded over our country for
centuries and siphoned off huge wealth of our Nation including
Kohinoor Diamond and Peacock Throne. However, it is neither desirable
nor appropriate to revisit history selectively. One should keep the
current predicament of innocent and loving people of Pakistan
subjugated by their own military in this context. It is said often
that “best of Ideas stretched to the extreme turns toxic” as the
Talibanisation of Islam has become for Pakistan & Afghanistan;
identically, fundamentalism and extremism in Hindu faith would prove
catastrophic for the country. No individual, organization or faith is
above some correction; however, we should accept the same, acknowledge
that and leave to move on for the benefit of a flourishing society. It
is now left to the reader’s judgment if it were a clash of Ideas or
Personality?