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The results of the recent General Elections in India signify a tectonic change in the Indian polity. We fondly recall that it was the present Prime Mi
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The results of the recent General Elections in India signify a tectonic change in the Indian polity. We fondly recall that it was the present Prime Minister Narendra Modi who inaugurated www.savarkar.org on 28 May 2008. On that occasion, he had paid rich tributes to Savarkar's role in the freedom struggle and the immense hardships that the entire Savarkar family underwent both in pre- and post-independent India. We also express our satisfaction that political forces who indulged in mud-slinging on Savarkar and heaped calumny on him have bit the dust in the General Elections
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In his first post-election speech, Prime Minister Modi asserted that this was the first time in the history of independent India that a party with a gotra distinct from that of the Congress had received a clear mandate from the people. The word gotra refers to the progeny of a sage. Obviously, a gotra requires a sage from whom, in this case, Modi's ideology originated. We submit that the sage in question is none other than Savarkar.
The independence struggle was marked by four distinct ideologies represented by the Congress, Muslim League, Communists and last but not the least, the Hindu Mahasabha. By any stretch of imagination, Modi does not owe allegiance to the first three ideological persuasions. In fact, he has just finished the job of demolishing the Congress, Communists of various hues and parties with Muslim League mentality. In an interview to Reuters news agency, Modi unabashedly declared that he is a Hindu nationalist. It goes without saying that the credit for enunciating and articulating the Hindu nationalist ideology goes to Savarkar. Savarkar's epic book Hindutva and his six Presidential speeches to the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha sessions (Hindu Rashtra Darshan) are compulsory reading for those who wish to understand Modi's ideology. The founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Dr. Hedgewar was one of the first individuals to have read Savarkar's book Hindutva (the book was first published in Nagpur by Hedgewar's close associate Vishwanath Kelkar). Dr. Hedgewar was deeply influenced by this book and had personally worked hard to propagate it. The second Sarsanghchalak of the RSS M.S. Golwalkar 'Guruji' had referred to the book as a shastra-granth (scripture) and a pathya-granth (textbook). Hinduization of politics was a watchword that was first articulated by Savarkar. It was Savarkar who first rejected the politics of minority appeasement.
It is therefore with a deep sense of satisfaction that we welcome this change in the Indian polity. It is a culmination of the ideological movement started by Savarkar. In this hour of glory, we pay our homage to the foremost leader of the Hindu nationalist movement – Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on his birth anniversary.
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1 comment:
Rajeev, thanks a lot for this blog. Wishing to see more.
Anand
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