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BJP to stay glued to Hindutva, says top boss
WSN Network

India's Hindu minded ultra-nationalist right wing party, the BJP, seems to have learnt little from consistent and sharp criticism as well as two huge consecutive defeats with its president Rajnath Singh last week declaring that there was no question of the party compromising on “Hindutva ideology” or its “original political thinking” just because it lost the recent Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP is facing some of the sharpest criticism from within its own ranks, and that too by some of the party's senior most leaders. Among those who have publicly blasted the party functioning are former union ministers Arun Shourie, Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha.

Rajnath Singh, addressing the two-day Karnataka BJP's executive meeting in Bangalore asserted that the party ideology was “morally and constitutionally correct,” adding that Hindutva ideology was as important to the BJP as the Constitution was for the country.

Disagreeing with the views of some political analysts who said the BJP should rethink its ideology and political thinking in the wake of the parliamentary poll debacle, Mr. Singh said these elections were not a referendum on ideology.

“The BJP is not in politics just for the sake of getting votes. We have a  nation-building responsibility. Our ideology of Hindutva and ‘cultural idealism’ is a message of universal brotherhood as well as co-existence, and hence we are opposing religion-based discrimination and reservation,” he said.

He said the BJP had never seen any vertical split in its organization due to its commitment to its ideology, while other parties had witnessed such splits.

27 May 2009
 

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