RSS taunts BJP to abandon Hindutva ideology, "Never," says Rajnath

Senior RSS ideologue MG alias Baburao Vaidya in a scathing attack on the performance of BJP, which was routed in the Lok Sabha elections, said the political party has failed to attract convey the message of Hindutva to the commoners who see it as a communal ideology and not as Gandhian socialism.

In his weekly column in local Marathi daily Tarun Bharat, Vaidya said that after the 2004 drubbing, during the recent election campaign, BJP again revived the Hindutva ideology "in its election manifesto but it miserably failed to attract the common voters and citizens in the country."

According to Vaidya, BJP had miserably failed to convey the real meaning of "Hindutva" to the people, which is Gandhian socialism, as party leaders had little patience to under the basic principles of the ideology.

"The BJP hasn't been able to impress on peoples' mind the comprehensive purport of Hindutva despite its rule at the Center and in many states perhaps because they found it narrow-minded or did not find it useful in ascending the throne of power," Vaidya said.

"Probably, they thought they were not deemed to climb the pedestal of power with 'Hindutva' line. Hence, BJP should now disassociate itself with 'Hindutva,'" he said.