By MuslimMirror
By Ram Puniyani
This 12th October 2024, the Vijayadashmi (Dussara), which is regarded as the foundation day of RSS, as is the practice of RSS Chief (Sarsanghchalak), Dr. Mohan Bhagwat gave a speech. This came in the background of his other significant speech in the aftermath of the slide down of BJP in 2024 General elections. In that speech he had targeted Narendra Modi. Modi had been claiming that he thinks he is non-biological, sent by God. As BJP slid down from 303 seats to 240, Bhagwat stated that “a Man wants to be superman, Then a Dev (deity) then a Bhagwan (God).” This was probably the first election where BJP claimed that it was earlier seeking the help of RSS as it was not that capable, now it is more capable.
With this speech Bhagwat brought down the rising arrogance of Narendra Modi and RSS combine (called Sangh Parivar) became hyperactive in election in Haryana, and along with the helpful manipulations of Election Commission, BJP came to power, defying the perception of sure win of Congress party.
Now in his Dussara speech he restated most of the policies of BJP, took on the states where the non BJP governments rule and outlined the deeper goals of RSS and the core of Hindutva politics, “Words like ‘Deep State’, ‘Wokeism’, ‘Cultural Marxist’ are enemies of all cultural traditions. Their modus operandi is first to bring educational institutions under their influence. They then try to destroy the thoughts, values and beliefs of the society. They then artificially create problems and inbuilt a feeling of victimhood in people. Then, they fan discontent, they make people aggressive, create an atmosphere of anarchy and instill fear and hatred towards the system, laws, governance in people. This makes it easy to establish one’s dominance over that country,”
The less popular word wokeism is used in a derogatory way mostly by right wingers for “the behaviour and attitudes of people who are sensitive to social and political injustice” This is the core sentence of his talk. As such as the Hindu right wing has been dominating the social political scene RSS combine have adopted the modus operandi whereby through shakhas, schools like Sarswati Shishu Mandir, Ekal Vidyalays and word of mouth through its vast network it has influenced the social common sense which promotes conservatism, promotes caste and gender hierarchy. Lately through control of the media by sympathetic Corporate and IT cells of BJP the thinking of a large section of society is being shaped by Hindu nationalist discourse.
Now what does wokeism do? It is the longing for a just society. It is against the discrimination on the grounds of caste, religion, color, language and supports the LGBT rights. These rights for equality of all beings are what pinch the Brahminical values, the core of Hindu nationalist politics. To slightly generalize it all the political tendencies parading themselves in the clothes of religion, Taliban, Muslim Brotherhood, politics in the name of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Christian fundamentalism promote inequality. They do have different expressions depending on the local situations.
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