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BJP should give up ‘Hindutva’: RSS ideologue Vaidya

Nagpur/Ghaziabad: Reeling under factional feud following Lok Sabha poll debacle, the BJP came under attack from its spiritual mentor RSS which accused it of being ‘inconsistent’ on Hindutva even as party chief Rajnath Singh said he was wedded to the core ideology. Senior RSS ideologue M G Vaidya said "the BJP ha ....Read more

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L.K ADVANI IN INDAIN PMBy: vivek sharma | Thursday , 24 Sep '09 11:09:36 AM Reply | Forward LK ADVANI A VEAR GOOD MAN

BJP is delusionalBy: B S Kumar | Wednesday , 17 Jun '09 17:15:51 PM Reply | Forward After Vajpayee, the BJP has suffered from lack of respectability. No party that has any real ambition in India should talk about anything other than progress for the whole of India. We're never going to build a country for the future based on ANY religion or religious set of idealogies. The fools who think Muslims are going to completely take over India should wonder why one set of Indians would ever want to take over another set of Indians - don't we already have enough challenges and problems trying to make a living in India?If we are to get beyond the 18th century mindset, we should think fresh and young, and be dynamic as a country. That is what the Congress represents and that is what India has voted for. Enough of all the other nonsense. Who cares if the BJP goes to the dogs and is forgotten forever. I care only about India and India isn't doing too badly right now. Go Manmohan Singh and co.!

Problem with worldviewBy: Samarth | Wednesday , 17 Jun '09 11:26:10 AM Reply | Forward BJP today is like a grown up teenager who has been brought up by the parents with a certain mindset. The child finds that the reality does not match the mindset. What should the child do? there are two options:1. Leave the parents' framework as obsolete and start thinking afresh. This will lead to a lot of uncertainty and problems till a fresh framework stabilises.2. Close the mind and accept the mindset as it is. This is a surer path, more comfortable, but is likely to lead the child to obsolescence and a dead end.It is a dilemma that BJP has to resolve. It is a good sign that there is a churning happening in BJP. It would be interesting to watch for the outcome. This will decide whether it will just survive or thrive in the long run.

Difference between BJP and RSSBy: Bharavi | Tuesday , 16 Jun '09 3:08:17 AM Reply | Forward BJP suffers because of the confusion around what it represents and what RSS represents. RSS mainly acts as a cadre that represents Hindus.. not "Hindutva". RSS has never even defined who is a Hindu (I believe rightly so). That creates identity confusion (see Kovaithambi's response). RSS can afford to keep that confusion and may be benefit from the lack of clarity but BJP cannot. Also, as a national party, it cannot and should not limit itself to Hindus. Any party aspiring to become a ruling party must represent all sectors of the society.RSS needs to act as a pressure group and not decide the agenda for BJP. They also need to note that a national party like BJP has to have some wiggle room to attract votes from all sectors (including Muslims/christians). Its not enough to say - we will bring uniform civil code (by the way...does BJP manifesto really say that?) - BJP also needs to state how they are going to make difference in each section of society

HINDDUTWA IS A WAY OF GOOD LIFE AND PATRIOTISMBy: B SGANESH, BANGALORE | Monday , 15 Jun '09 22:05:38 PM Reply | Forward Hindutwa is a way of praying to God and having cooperation and making all happy etc. Is it not foolish to leave Hindutwa in a majority Hindu country and adopt Islam or Christianisty?B SGANESH, BANGALORE

Act now or Prepare for dooms day.By: lohit | Monday , 15 Jun '09 21:32:19 PM Reply | Forward todays problem is the population of muslim which can decisively give a election victory and this bank is being nurtured to milk during elections, what is the identity of india apart from being a land of hindus nothing, BJP should go out for complete hindu ideology like Veer Savarkar propagated, be it any measure and any obstacle they have to do it, so did all the civilizations on the world for their identity and existence.All the propaganda of Pseudosecularism is just to influence the Macaulay students of india and nothing else.Leave it today in hands of Pseudosecularists they will show the Colourfull dooms day in just few decades.Its better to escape to a better place like USA or UK to protect our identity and our future generations than get extinct here in near future.

BJP's DilemmaBy: Girish Mishra | Monday , 15 Jun '09 21:24:09 PM Reply | Forward BJP has two types of members: those with RSS background and those without it. The latter want it to become a secular rightist party and if this thinking prevails, it will lose RSS support and it will wither away like Rajaji's Swatantra Party. In case it remains a Hindutva party, it will be like Jan Sangh of old days, having only some nuisance value.

BiasBy: Rohit | Monday , 15 Jun '09 18:24:27 PM Reply | Forward IE is bi assed. My comments to sick persons like Chor, Prem Lizard and Cheap Sracar didn't get published.

Prove if this is WrongBy: Rohit | Monday , 15 Jun '09 17:38:36 PM Reply | Forward Mohhamedeans are responsible for all the miseries of world since foundation. Christians and Mohamedeans cannot exist in peace. In peaceful country like India, they indulge in religious riots with Hindus. Why did Hindus not have riots with Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Parsees, Jews, Zoroastrians etc? Because the root of problem in world is these two only. The world has never had peace ever since these two came. Crusades, Rape, Murder, Loot and Pillage is foundation of these two as one reads history.Challenge is open to everyone to prove the above statement wrong... Especially to sikular writers whose mentality is so sick and dark that even Hitler would be ashamed had he been alive.

dharmaBy: Ahmed | Monday , 15 Jun '09 14:01:58 PM Reply | Forward Hinduism is a way of life since time immemorial.Invaders from around the world tried to destroy it but were unknowingly immersed in its beauty.Hinduism is not a religion as no Vedas or upanishad has that word.Its use for the people of this great sub-continent who totally differ from the areas surround it.We should be proud of this heritage as we had given this world the most missionaries of peace where other great nations had failed like Gautam,Mahavira,moinuddin chisti,sai baba,sant dyanehwar,bharti etc etc.Our strength is not the nuclear arsenal we posses but our unity.

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