Even as the Congress fights the BJP fire over Salman Khurshid’s book, where he equated political Hindutva with Jihadi Islam outfits such as ISIS, Rahul Gandhi has come out with his take on the difference between Hinduism and Hindutva, providing fresh lease to the discourse. Gandhi said while Hinduism is not about persecuting people belonging to different faiths, Hindutva was. He also said the BJP-RSS ideology has overshadowed the Congress’ ideology.
In his virtual address to a Congress workers training camp in Wardha on Friday, Gandhi said it was important to empower Congress workers to go into details of various topics, ideologies and other aspects of politics. He narrated his take on the difference between Hinduism and Hindutva. “What is the difference between Hinduism, as we know it, and Hindutva? Are they the same thing? Can they be the same thing? If they are the same thing, why don’t they have the same name? Why do they have different names? Why do we use the word Hinduism, why just not use the word Hindutva, if they are the same thing? They are obviously different things,” Gandhi said. “Is Hinduism about beating a Sikh or a Muslim? Hindutva of course is. But is Hinduism about killing Akhlaq? In which book is this written? I have not seen it. I have read the Upanishads. I have not seen it. Where is it written that you should kill an innocent man? I am unable to find this in Hindu scriptures, in Islamic scriptures, in Sikh scriptures. I can see it in Hindutva.”
Many in Congress circles fear Gandhi and Khurshid may have fanned debates that would not actually help the Congress, but the BJP, in the run up to the assembly polls, especially in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Gandhi said that the RSS-BJP ideology managed to overshadow Congress ideology. “Today, whether we like it or not, the hateful ideology of RSS and BJP has overshadowed the loving, affectionate and nationalistic ideology of Congress party. We have to accept this. Our ideology is alive, vibrant but it has been overshadowed. Our ideology has been overshadowed because we’ve not propagated it among our own people aggressively.” Incidentally, the RSS-BJP ideology and politics attained unprecedented reach under the leadership of Narendra Modi since the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, when Rahul Gandhi led the Congress as its de facto and de jure leader. He had fashioned and implemented organisational, political, ideological and tactical vision and experiments across the Congress and against the BJP during his stint as Congress vice-president and president.
AICC writes to Zuckerberg: The Congress on Friday wrote yet another letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, protesting against its “apparent and evident bias towards ruling dispensation.” Congress also sought a JPC probe into it. AICC social media head Rohan Gupta’s letter to Zuckerberg said the onus was on him to take necessary action in view of abundant evidence of Facebook’s inaction against hate speeches on its platform. Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi too wrote a letter to the Facebook India head on the same issue.
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