Yoga and Suryanamaskar

The BJP led by Mr. Modi which won the Lok Sabha Election in May 2014, was  like the Roman god Janus, which had two faces, one looking forward, and the other looking backward. The forward looking face was called 'vikas', while the backward looking face was called ' Hindutva'. This was a beautiful combination, and a sure shot formula for victory.

 The youth in India, seeing only the forward looking face, and thinking that this meant millions of jobs will be created for them by that superman with Alladin's magic lamp, voted en masse for Mr. Modi in the Lok Sabha Elections, and gave him a resounding victory

 After the victory of the BJP, however, the dream was shattered for the Indian youth because they discovered there were no jobs ( see my blog ' The Dream has Evaporated ' in justicekatju.blogspot.in ). It was discovered painfully that the forward looking face was not a face at all but only a mask, and that the youth had been hoodwinked and taken for a ride.

In fact the BJP had, and has always had, only one face, that is, the backward looking face, which meant Ram Mandir, love jihad, ghar wapasi, 'haramzadas', beef ban, vandalizing churches etc. In other words, the BJP has only one agenda, and that is hatred of Muslims and Christians, and that is because BJP is really controlled by RSS, which is rabidly anti minority.

 The BJP Govt. of India has really no solution to the real problems facing the country---massive poverty, massive unemployment, massive healthcare and education problems, massive malnourishment of our children, numerous farmers suicides, etc. So what can it do ?

 It can only try to divert the attention of the people from their real problems to inciting communal tension and communal riots, the latest moves being seeking to make yoga and suryanamaskar compulsory in schools, the whole idea being to secure a vote bank.

 In other words, find a scapegoat on whom the hatred can be directed. For Hitler it was the Jews who were responsible for all the ills of the German people, for BJP it is the Muslims and Christians.

 Hari Om

The R.S.S.

A few months back a friend of mine wanted to join the B.J.P. and consulted me. I advised him against joining any political party as in my opinion none of them have genuine love for India or its people, and are only interested in power and pelf.

 A few days later he again met me and said  he had made some enquiries and came to know that the persons who rose high in the B.J.P. government or organization were those who had many years background as a member of the R.S.S. Also, the 'ghar wapasi' and other policies had antagonized him. Hence he decided not to join B.J.P.

 The truth is that the B.J.P. is dominated by the R.S.S. and all its top ministers and party officials have decades of membership of the R.S.S.

What is the R.S.S. ? It was an organization created when India was under British rule, and its object, like that of the Muslim League, was to further the British policy of divide and rule.

 I have interacted with many R.S.S. officials and members, and found that they are rabidly anti Muslim and anti Christian. They have closed minds about Indian history and culture. According to their way of thinking, all Muslims and Christians are devils, and Muslim rule in India was a period of slavery for India. Also, Hindus invented aeroplanes (as 'pushpak viman' is mentioned in the Ramayana ), atom bombs guided missiles, genetic engineering and head transplant surgery ( as was done to Ganesh ).

 R.S.S. and B.J.P. thrive on hatred, that is, communal tension and communal riots, because that is all they have in their ideological arsenal. All the talk of 'vikaas' was really hogwash, as Arun Shourie, who had earlier supported Modi, has pointed out now.

The B.J.P.

The ideology of B.J.P. can be summarised in a few words : hatred of Muslims and Christians.

 The B.J.P. claims to represent the Hindus ( whose euphemism is 'cultural nationalism' or 'Hindutva'), but in fact the B.J.P. leaders and rank and file have no idea about the great Hindu intellectualism of the past

 In my speech entitled ' Sanskrit as a language of Science ' ( see online and on my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in and also on the website kgfindia.com ) delivered in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and thereafter in the Benaras Hindu University, I have given a glimpse of that great Hindu intellectualism.

 The B.J.P. members have no idea of this, and of the real great achievements  of our ancestors in the past, and instead they talk nonsense by saying that in ancient India there were aeroplanes, guided missiles, and atom bombs, or that in ancient India we knew genetic engineering or could do head transplants. Such talk only makes us a laughing stock before the whole world.

 All that B.J.P. has in its ideological arsenal is hatred of minorities and the knowledge how to instigate communal tension and riots.  It is an anti national party,because as I have mentioned in my article ' What is India ' ( see online and on my blog and on kgfindia.com ), India is a country of great diversity ( because it is broadly a country of immigrants, like North America ), and hence secularism and equal respect for all communities is the only path towards peace and prosperity. Whoever spreads communal hatred is an enemy of India.