15 Jul, 2014
Poison pen: Attempt to rewrite India’s history is dangerous – Hindustan Times
Apart from trying to erase from official record, any evidence pertaining to the role of the RSS or its members, both active and former then, in Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, the current efforts are a clear attempt by the RSS/BJP to advance its ideological political project of converting the secular-democratic character of the Indian Republic into the RSS vision of a rabidly intolerant fascistic ‘Hindu Rashtra’. This RSS project was defeated during the freedom struggle when independent India established itself as a constitutional Republic on the foundations of secularism and democracy.
This, however, has never prevented the RSS from continuing to pursue its efforts to metamorphose the modern Indian Republic into its vision of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’.
Having won a clear majority in the general elections, albeit with a minority 31% support of votes polled, the RSS/BJP see the best possibility they ever had to advance their project to metamorphose the Indian Republic into a Hindu Rashtra.
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