There has been increased attempts to own up leaders who stood against congress. The leaders now are Subhash Chandra Bose and Ambedkar.
Ambedkar's 125th birth anniversary falls on April 14th. His views are being distorted and quoted out of context to an extent that a RSS spokesperson claimed Ambedkar was the first supporter of "Ghar wapasi"!!!
Next is the sudden love for Subhash Chandra bose and the hue and cry being raised over Bose relatives being spied.
What were the ideas these leaders stood for?? Do they have anything in common with RSS Ideology??
S.C. Bose was ready to forge alliance with Nazis and Japan during WW2 only to counter the british. He considered every human as equal and had no belief in racial policies (or even the aryan link theory between India and Germanic-Europe which even gandhi had once appealed to it). But M.S. Gowalkar admired hitler's ideology of Racial purity. Gowalkar considered hindu race and culture as superior in the Indian sub continent(Hindus-tan) and asked the non-hindus to embrace hinduism or live as foreigners without any rights.
Bose described himself as "left-wing nationalist" in his book 'The Indian struggle' while RSS is a right-wing nationalist orgn.
Ambedkar in his book 'annihilation of caste' attacked Hinduism directly and claimed that the very foundation of caste system has to be attacked to end it. He led mass conversion of dalits to Buddhism. When he met Gandhi in 1931 he criticised Gandhi's struggle for homeland by his famous remark "Gandhiji. I have no homeland. No untouchable worth the name will be proud of this land".
He never considered Hinduism as a home(ghar) of dalits and his ideology is completely antagonistic to Ghar Wapasi...
In the efforts to trumpet support and own up leaders who stood up against Nehru and Gandhi, I think the RSS will next distort history and start supporting the Britishers.
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