Opinion Blame Congress

The latest issue of the RSS weekly Organiser blames the Congress for the large-scale corruption in the government and the failure to tackle the economy.

May 24, 2012 02:26 AM IST First published on: May 24, 2012 at 02:26 AM IST

BLAME CONGRESS

The latest issue of the RSS weekly Organiser blames the Congress for the large-scale corruption in the government and the failure to tackle the economy. The governments flagship projects,be it NRHM or the NREGA,are all narrations in corruption. The much-touted farmer waiver is a hoax played on both the farmer and the taxpayer. It has not reached the intended beneficiaries though the money has vanished from the treasury… For the economic ills of India,the finance minister blames Greece,a nation half the size of one Indian state… There has never before been such despondency and despair in the hearts of the people of this country as one is suffering now. And the Congress party and its leadership alone is responsible for this, it says in its editorial.

The editorial singles out Home Minister P. Chidambaram,charging that the veteran of several hit-and-run scandals continues to be a senior member of the cabinet. It also says: the corruption in (the) defence sector revealed by the army chief is but a tip of the iceberg. Even so,its magnitude is unheard of… Interestingly,all the scams of the last eight years,when investigated a little deeper lead to the doors of the Mother Superior of Congress party. She,like P. Chidambaram,with deftness and solvency is brazening it out.

UNDERSTANDING GOLWARKaR

The Organiser has started serialising articles on M. S. Golwarkar,the top RSS ideologue popularly known as Guruji. The articles,written by S. Gurumurthy,are an attempt to analyse and interpret the thoughts of Golwarkar,who was instrumental in laying the ideological foundations of the RSS.

Gurumurthy says that Golwarkars thoughts and expositions were questioned and criticised during his lifetime. He likens him to a seer who spoke ahead of time and contends that different terms are used to define the RSS movement by Indian and Western commentators,even though such terms may seem inappropriate category for study of Hindu religious phenomena.

He says: Hinduism is without foundation texts,defined dogmas,and institutional structures that are characteristic of most varieties of fundamentalism in other belief systems. This point of view finds frequent expression in modern Indian thinking,with emphasis on (the) Hindu view of life as grounded in spiritual experience that is essentially rational and humanistic. The article argues that Golwarkars views had this clarity,which he articulated through his speeches to followers. Gurumurthy claims that the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 concurred with this view,and quotes the essay The Functioning of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: To Define the Hindu Nation in the,five-volume Fundamentalism Project as proof.

INTERNAL SECURITY

The Panchjanya in its latest editorial has criticised the UPA government for failing to tackle the internal security situation in the country,underscored by the spurt in Naxal activity. It alleges that the UPA is playing politics and trying to blame state governments while also trying to dilute the federal structure through acts like the NCTC. The editorial argues that the Centre has not lent enough support to the Chhattisgarh government in fighting Naxals,who it had attempted to corner through programmes like Salwa Judum. It also alleges that the UPA attacked the Raman Singh government through individuals like Swami Agnivesh,and such indirect encouragement led to Naxalism gaining in states like Chhattisgarh.