AnyTV Rising Bharat Summit 2024: Politician associated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and President of India Foundation, who attended AnyTV’s popular Leadership Conclave Rising India Conference, gave a befitting reply to those who abuse Hindutva. It was also told that it was the Hindutva government that freed Muslim women from the curse of triple talaq in this country and yet it was called a demon.
Ram Madhav further said that the Hindutva government in the country gave gas cylinders to lakhs of women under the Ujjwala scheme, at that time was it asked, what is your caste? What is your religion? Today professional critics have their own market and under this, Hindutva is demonized. Those who believe in Hindutva are even called fascist and communal.
If Hindutva is wrong then Mahatma Gandhi was the first Hindu..
The quality of Hindutva is that there is leeway in it, even if there is a professional critic. Apart from this, if anything is going wrong then people can raise questions on it. Gandhiji has also said that there should be continuous improvement in Sanatan Dharma, Hinduism. Ravana was a great Hindu but due to evil he too was opposed and killed. Look, it is fine to oppose it where necessary, but if you brand any group and say that you believe in Hindutva, you are wrong. Therefore, if Hindutva is bad, then this thing is not right and this is what is being done. The brand is being maligned by calling it Hindu.
There can be bad people even there who do not believe in Hinduism. There could be faults there too. This is not politics, this is the soul of nationalism. If this is politics then Mahatma Gandhi was the first person who said that I am the first Sanatani Hindu. This is the value system of our country.
This is why people oppose Hindutva.
Dr. Ram Madhav further says that people have some misunderstandings. People think that Hinduism is very liberal and Hindutva is very fundamentalist, Hindutva is actually Hinduism in practice. It is also updating itself with time, this is Hindutva and there is nothing different from it. Those who criticize Hindutva do not do so because they do not understand it, but because their job is to criticize or to continue criticizing it.
What did writer and critic Pawan Verma say?
At the same time, well-known thinker, politician and writer Pawan Verma, who was raising questions on Ram Madhav present in the summit, said that I have nothing against the word Hindutva. I admire this intelligence. Theoretically, I am not against the word Hindutva, but whatever the contractors and political spirit of Hinduism have done, what to wear, how many times to go to the temple, what to eat, how to live, all this is what is being done, that is Hindutva. It’s like ending. You need to be vigilant against these threats. I think when you use Hindutva purely as a political tool, it is no longer the Hindutva that we believe in, or that we are proud to be associated with, or that we worship, but this society. Becomes a tool for distribution. It spreads violence. And it is creating an army of people who cannot write a page on Hindutva but remain its protectors. They have become law themselves.
In my opinion, the ruling party uses people like Bajrang Dal to achieve political goals in the short term. And then she also creates distance. But this is harming the depth and essence of Hindutva. I think this is wrong.
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Tags: hindutva, Ram Madhav, Rising India Summit, Triple talaq
FIRST PUBLISHED: March 19, 2024, 17:08 IST