The Modern Rationalist – July 2019

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The Modern Rationalist

July 2019

T


he BJP led NDA under the Prime Ministership
of Narendra Modi has assumed power for the
second consecutive term. Earlier under the prime
ministership of A.B. Vajpayee, BJP ruled the country for
a full term (1999-2004). Whatever may be the political
leadership of BJP, the ideological control is always vested
with the RSS. The political leadership cannot compromise
with the saffron ideology which is popularly propagated
as Hindutva.
The saffron ideology targets towards change in minds of
the citizens more so in young students. Whenever the
political face of RSS, viz. BJP assumes ruling power their
concentration would be on education. The main strength
of saffron ideology is based on mere faith in Hindu
mythologies. The changing environment, when science
and technology are getting advanced, the people would not
prefer mere faith based ideology. The remedial approach
chosen by saffron outfits to overcome this hurdle is giving
scientific touch and colour to faith. But science and faith
are opposite poles. In science, the established hypothesis,
has to be proved through experiments, where as in respect
of faith there is no question of experiment, proof etc.
Reckoning this basic difference and as a tactic, the
Hindutva forces started to point and project anything
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