Ajay Gudavarthy: The RSS’s Chanakya Neeti
NB: The goal is to create an ideological tyranny via subversion of the rule of law. Note how all terror accused who were linked to the 'Sangh Parivar' have been let off the hook. The RSS wishes primarily to eradicate the distinction between legal and illegal violence; claiming all the while that they are a cultural organisation. After all, even Pranab Da gave them a certificate of patriotism. DS
The organisation is
known for working relentlessly for the BJP and using state power to advance its
Hindutva agenda, but for coyly distancing itself when the BJP begins to lose the popular
mandate.
The Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat recently announced that it is a
cultural organisation and irrespective of the results of the general elections
of 2019, it will continue with its work. RSS is known to claim and distance the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as per its convenience. It works relentlessly for
the BJP and uses state power to advance its Hindutva agenda, and coyly
distances itself when BJP begins to lose its popular mandate.
This has been a
long-term strategy of RSS, part of its Chanakya Neeti, to evaluate
others but never allow its own work to be scrutinised by the public. In a true
age-old brahminical fashion, it considers itself above society’s collective
gaze and suffers from a disdain of public morality, even as it uses and
routinely condemns it. It does not maintain a registered list of its swayamsevaks (volunteers),
and argues that a cultural organisation is open to all.
RSS self-deluges
itself of being a cultural organisation that has nothing to do with politics
but continues to play a political, including an active role during the
elections.
It fuses acceptable public norms with its insidious designs. None of
their pracharaks who offer routine comments to news dailies
ever identify themselves. They believe, or rather would-have us believe, that
they don’t crave for recognition and, therefore, wish to remain anonymous.
Perhaps, for the first time in television news channels, Desh Ratan, Raghav
Awasthi and Sandeep Mahapatra identified themselves as RSS ideologues or
spokespersons. But as the elections are drawing closer, while the latter two
have disappeared, the former is now designated as a political analyst.
Ram Madhav, a
full-time pracharak is now the general secretary and a key
election-strategist for BJP. It wouldn`t come as a surprise if he gradually
disappears from public eye or returns to the fold of RSS. This is a strategy to
enjoy power without taking responsibility for their actions. Responsibility and
brick-bats are borne by either the BJP or other affiliates, often known as fringe
elements that are otherwise recognised as part of the Sangh Parivar.
Again, the affiliates
are distanced when it doesn’t suit them, but continue the affiliation and tacit
support. This has been a routine practice that RSS brought into the BJP, with
its various firebrand leaders making incendiary and often insensitive comments
that are condemned or disowned by the BJP central leadership which has never
acted against any of them. As part of its Chanakya Neeti, this in a
sense a mode of normalising a language, a world view and even a certain kind of
violence without directly confronting with the counter viewpoint or owning up
the inflammatory language.
As among many other
standard practices of the Sangh is its ability to shoot and scoot. It routinely
blames the Opposition of exactly what it itself is guilty of. It blames the
Opposition of being violent, communal, vulgar, conspiratorial, of speaking
lies, indulging in backroom machinations, intolerance, and hatred. Methods of
the Sangh can be understood from what they blame others of. This allows them to
both nuetralise the critique against them as well as creates confusion about
who is doing what. It creates a sense of detachment, disgust, and cynicism in
the minds of the ordinary citizen.
This mode of disempowerment through
detachment from everyday politics and large-scale cynicism is perceived by the
RSS as a precondition for its authoritarian agenda to fructify. This is also
the reason the RSS has actively worked against the institutions of higher
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