Amit Shah’s dig at multi-party democracy is part of RSS’ Hindu Rashtra plan

Union Home Minister Amit Shah told a convention organised by the All India Management Association recently, “After nearly 70 years of independence, there was a question in the minds of the people whether the vision of the founding fathers had really been realised. Whether the multi-party democratic system had failed to fulfil the aspirations of the citizens of the country.” Though he said this in the context of criticising the UPA government’s tenure from 2004 to 2014, the oblique hint at a single-party rule was not lost on anybody.

One has to bear in mind that this came soon after Shah had projected Hindi as the best suited ‘one’ language to unite India. Those who are conversant with the RSS’ roadmap for India will not be surprised by this statement. Fascism and democracy can’t go hand-in-hand. For fascist dictatorship of one party to be perpetuated, democracy has to be sacrificed. One of the RSS’ leading lights, B.S. Moonje, also a close associate of the outfit’s founder KB Hedgewar, was inspired by the paramilitary training imparted to members of the youth wing of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist party. He replicated Italian Fascist practices in the organisational structure of the RSS. And the ideological inspiration, which the RSS founders drew from fascists and Nazis, does not end only with the establishment of the organisational structure of the RSS. It is also an integral part of the ideology of nationalism of the RSS. It defines Hindu nationalism on the lines of pure German nationalism of the Nazis. The RSS is committed to the idea of creating a Hindu India or Rashtra on the same pattern as Hitler’s idea of a Germanic nation of pure German blood. All major inter-community conflicts which have arisen in contemporary India are because the RSS wants to ruthlessly impose its idea of a monolithic Hindu nationalism which is otherwise, resisted and opposed by multiple and diverse cultural communities of India. Imposition of Hindi as one language of the country will be a first step to kill that diversity.

The Union Home Minister, thus, only articulated the ideology of the BJP’s mother organisation. The RSS, its ideology and paramilitary network of the organisation which is spread in every corner of the country, and the present government are great threats to the idea of a plural India which is enshrined in the secular, democratic and federal Constitution where the Indian State is expected to protect the diversity of culture, languages, ways of life of the people of India.

The struggle against the RSS and this government, which are undemocratic, hierarchical, divisive and anti-cultural minorities, has to be waged by all those who defend the philosophical foundational principles of this very Constitution. India’s diversity is best exemplified by its vibrant, multi-party democracy. Destroying that is the BJP-RSS’ ultimate goal as it will pave way for establishment of a monolithic, homogenous Hindu Rashtra. The people of India must stand together to foil the RSS-BJP’s nefarious design.