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Rahul hits BJP, says they’re using religion just to grab power

By Rebecca Vega
September 15, 2021
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Rahul Gandhi asked on Wednesday why Nathuram Godse killed Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest practitioner of the Hindu religion, if the RSS was the protector of Hinduism, saying Sangh’s parivar was using religion simply to seize power .

Addressing the Mahila Congress founding day event, Rahul said, “The BJP says it’s a Hindu party. One person who understood Hinduism and practiced it was Mahatma Gandhi. Even RSS accepts it. Why then did Godse inject bullets into Gandhi’s chest? The whole world regards Gandhi as an idol. Gandhi espoused the policy of non-violence. Non-violence is the foundation of the Hindu religion. So why did Godse kill Gandhi?

Although the BJP often says that Godse left the RSS when he assassinated Gandhi, the essence of Rahul’s argument was that he was the product of the same ideology. To assert his point of view, he said that there could be no meeting point between the ideologies of Gandhi and the “God Savarkar”.

While the RSS-BJP disavows Godse, it is well established that he was a disciple of VD Savarkar whom the parivar Sangh still considers his icon. Savarkar was one of the defendants in the Gandhi assassination case but was acquitted for lack of evidence.

Rahul, who is waging a legal battle to link Gandhi’s assassination to the RSS, has constantly insisted that the ideology and philosophy that created Godse belonged to Sangh’s parivar. There are a good number of BJP deputies who hail Godse as a “patriot” and a “true nationalist” and even campaign to erase the infamy attached to him. The Twitter hashtag “Godse zindabad” has become a trend in recent years, only after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power on the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth and death.

Rahul broached the subject on Wednesday to counter the RSS-BJP’s perceived monopoly on the Hindu religion, insinuating that the ideology that has eliminated the most devout Hindu may not be the true representative of his interests.

He clearly took upon himself the heavy task of disengaging Hindus from the RSS and demolishing the widely held perception that the BJP is a Hindu party.

Rahul again leaned on the Durga-Lakshmi metaphor he used at his recent rally in Jammu, apparently with the dual purpose of challenging the BJP’s Hindu credentials and congressional propaganda being anti-Hindu.

He said: “Durga is the symbol of the power that protects. Lakshmi is not the goddess of wealth as is widely understood. Lakshmi comes from the word Lakshya (goal). The power that helps you achieve your goal comes from Lakshmi. When Modi made note-bandi, did he reduce Lakshmi’s power or improve it? When he brought in agricultural laws, did he reduce Lakshmi’s power in farmers’ households or did he increase it? When we gave the Constitution, RTI, MGNREGA… we increased the power of Durga and Lakshmi in the hands of the people.

He then launched a deadly attack on the RSS-BJP: “Ho kya raha hai? Woh apne-aap ko hindu festival kahte hain aur pure desh mein Lakshmi aur Durga by aakraman karte hain. Jahan bhi jaate hain, kahin Lakshmi ko maarte hain, kahin Durga ko maarte hain. Aur kahte hain hum hindu hain. You kis prakar ke hindu hain? Ye jhoothe hindu hain. Ye hindu dharm ka prieog karte hain. Ye dharm ki dalali karte hain magar ye hindu nahin hain (What’s going on? They call themselves a Hindu party and attack Lakshmi and Durga all over the country. Wherever they go, they attack Lakshmi or Durga. And they say they are Hindus. What kind of Hindus are they? They are false Hindus. They use the Hindu religion. They trade in religion but they are not Hindus.) “

Rahul said Modi snatched Durga and Lakshmi from the common people and put them in the hands of a few capitalist friends.

“Modi’s friends have thousands of crores, common people have nothing. Made-in-India is a lie but you can’t talk about it. They are afraid of the truth. Modi’s life is a lie. He has fled from the truth all his life. You see the symbol of Congress – the hand. You will see it in all religions. You see Lord Shiva, Mahavir, Buddha, Guru Nanak and you will see the hand. When Muslims pray, you see the hand. We are not afraid. We will die but will not surrender. But the philosophy of RSS-BJP is “daro, aur darao”. They are scared themselves. Hatred is a form of fear.

BJP national secretary general Arun Singh sought to rebut the congressman by saying, “Rahul Gandhi should not be making these statements. It is totally disconnected from the ground. He has no information. This is the main problem. “

Rahul’s is undoubtedly a new discourse, driven by a conscious plan of action to challenge the domination of the RSS-BJP in the Hindu space.

This is different from the regular secular-community discourse which, in the opinion of many party members, facilitates the position of the BJP as a Hindu party. Rahul has now run the risk of igniting a debate that could attract accusations of competitive religiosity, but Congress says the attempt is to argue that secularism is not anti-religion.

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