today on the show we will discuss one of
the biggest mistakes that in my opinion
the rss and the bjp
has made my name is sham sharma welcome
to the sham sharma show
hello hello and welcome welcome to
another edition of the sham sharma show
thank you very much for joining me today
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appreciate you so one of the things that
the rss has been very very successful in
is creating an organizational base among
the hindus
something that was very badly needed
during the british times and
after independence as well so the rss
and then the bjp which is influenced by
the rss
they've done really really well to
create a very strong
organizational base and a very strong
network
among hindus in india but what they have
created in a network
i believe that they lack in an
ideological base and an ideological
agenda
in my opinion one of the biggest
mistakes that the bjp and the rss have
made
is that they don't have an ideological
influence
over people's minds the rashtriya
swamaksang
was founded by keshav baliram hegdevar
in nagpur
on vijayadashmi in 1925 one of the first
acts of the rss
was to act as a vigilante group to
protect hindus against muslim
rioters after the khilafat problems dr
hegreward was a man of
action he was not a thinker or a writer
he has left us with very few writings
he focused on organization and work
which has provided huge benefits but
also
is very indicative of the choice that
the rss
has made like i said before big hindu
organizations
like the bjp and the rss they've worked
very hard to create an
organizational base but they haven't
really worked to create a strong
ideological or intellectual base to
fight the left
dr hegrivar did not want hindus to waste
time on reading and writing
and he wanted all the energy to be
devoted to
organizing the hindus now in my opinion
the rss has done a great job
in organizing the hindus and organizing
hindus of all costs
many people say that the rss is a
costiest organization
maybe it used to be the case in the past
but i don't believe that today
the rss is necessarily a castiest
organization a great example of that is
the rss in kerala
most of the hindus that join the rss in
kerala are from lower costs
even rss affiliated organizations like
the vanvasi kalyan ashram have done a
great job
in reminding tribals of their sanatani
roots and stopping conversions as well
but again
while they've done a very good job of
organization
they haven't done a very good job of
developing an ideological base and then
mainstreaming that ideological base
among the indian mind
the communists and the leftists on the
other hand have created a
massive amount of propaganda and
propaganda literature the indian
communists
followed an entries policy an entries
policy means that they
joined the congress party in a very
large number
and infiltrated many of the important
positions and institutions in the
government
so starting from nehru and then even
indira gandhi's advisers pian haskar and
education minister nurul hassan
put communists in all manner of powerful
positions
and set up a number of institutions
which were controlled by committed
communists and marxists
history teaches us that size and
strength
and number doesn't really matter if
you're not able to create
a good analysis of the problem and the
situation
that you are facing even the great
thinker sri aurobindo
commented on this he noticed that hindus
were not focusing on building
a strong intellectual base he said that
i believe that the main cause of india's
weakness
is not subjection not poverty nor a lack
of spirituality
or dharma but a lack of thought power
the spread of ignorance in the
motherland of knowledge
everywhere i see an inability or
unwillingness
to think incapacity of thought or
thought phobia
from the time of nehru the leftists had
political organizations like the
communist party of india and its
variations and they also had communists
installed in many of the important
educational institutions
which went a long way in controlling the
indian mind
you can put people in all sorts of
powerful positions that you want but if
you don't have a clear
ideological intellectual agenda then
you're just going to follow the rules
that the left has set for you
just like many bjp leaders follow
leftist policies socialist policies
they practice pseudo-secularism and they
do a lot of minority appeasement
this is why the bjp and many people
within the bjp
are so desperate to get the approval of
prominent leftists
even though deep down inside they know
that the left and the leftists are
never going to like them they're always
going to hate them
this is why pm modi also mentioned in
the interview that he gave
to smitha prakash he said that he's been
trying to develop a great relationship
and be friendly
with the lutions media but the leftist
luteans communist marxist media
is never going to accept him they're
never going to like him
so it is a silly thing to try and do and
look the rss and the bjp they could have
easily developed a strong intellectual
base for themselves
there are so many independent authors
and independent intellectuals that have
created such
great ideological and intellectual work
for the hindu side
people like sitaram goyal people like
ram swarup srikantalageri arun shori
suhas majumdar conrad elst there is a
massive list of names
who have done great service in creating
an intellectual base for hindus but the
rs has never really showed
a lot of interest in the works of these
people with the kind of organization and
with the large network that the rss and
the bjp have they could have easily
helped
to mainstream the intellectual ideas of
all these prominent intellectuals i just
talked about
and they could have presented a strong
credible challenge to leftist ideology
but they didn't do that they didn't
promote it in a big way where they
should have
and because of this the hindu ideology
the hindu intellectualism hasn't been
able to create
a space in indian's mind the way leftist
ideology
has controlled indians minds communists
have been exposed as traitors
over and over again in india's history
they betrayed india in the quit india
movement they supported the partition
they supported the separatist evil
islamist
razakars in hyderabad they supported the
chinese invasion in 1962 they said
china's chairman is india's chairman and
they were recently shouting bharathira
to
inshallah inshallah in the jnu campuses
but because they control the minds of
the indian people
through institutions through pop culture
through media
and through intellectuals people think
that being a leftist and a communist and
a marxist is cool
and so this can make people forget about
the number of times that the communists
have betrayed india and because the
communist controls the indians minds
people think that being a hindu is not
cool being a hindu is evil because
hindus are evil
because hindu ideology is evil because
hindu culture is evil being a proud
hindu and being a proud hindu patriot is
seen as evil is seen as racist
and fundamentalist we worship marx and
we worship chi govara and we call
these people our youth leaders but we
don't even know about
our great intellectuals and our great
thinkers because the bjp and the rss
never really tried to promote them and
never really tried to create a
strong ideological narrative the left
has created a massive ecosystem because
they control the ideology and because
they have a big network
so they have a huge army of influencers
like these people
and then they also have a huge army of
media
like these people these people are
working to spread the leftist ideology
and the leftist propaganda throughout
india
and they're looking to control
especially young indians minds
and they're succeeding because the
communists and the marxists and the
leftists know from experience
that controlling the ideological
narrative
is more important than having just a
large organization
hindus have to develop a strong academic
intellectual narrative if they want to
combat the
leftist christo islamic narrative that
prevails in india today
having a strong organization and having
a strong network is very important don't
get me wrong it's a very important thing
but it's also time that we use that
large organization and we use that large
base
to create a solid ideological
intellectual base that the hindus can
then use
to fight the left having said that
though i do believe that there is a
strong intellectual base that is
developing among the hindus and the
hindu side
and it is becoming more and more
difficult for the left
to ignore it and for the left to just
push it away
so there is an academic intellectual
base developing
and it is high time that it develops and
there is still a
very very very long way to go before
we're able to
match the leftist narrative in strength
so we have to keep working hard we have
to keep researching we have to educate
ourselves more and more
and continue to add to that ideological
narrative so guys this was today's
episode i
hope you found today's episode useful
and i want to ask you as well do you
agree with me that
not creating a strong ideological
intellectual base
has been a big mistake by the rss and
the bjp whatever you think
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