bjp and rss tussle
No, not
another court verdict to reserve the UP election results. It is RSS again this
time, repeating a Bihar. Two senior leaders of the RSS, Vaidya and Dattatreya
Hosbole condemned the reservation policy in strong words at the Jaipur Literary
Festival but quickly issued a clarification that the RSS is against reservation
on religious basis. But the damage was done. BJP leaders went into a huddle and
rushed to the RSS chief asking him to pull up the erring juniors, which he
promptly refused. At one point, the BJP decided to use its social media network
and innumerable trolls to ‘teach a lesson’ to the RSS. But the troll handlers
developed cold feet, many of them owing allegiance to the parent body, forcing
the BJP to abandon the plan. Vaidya, in his earlier avatar as chief of RSS
Gujarat unit had stepped on Modi’s toes. That is the nearest he could go to
Modi, who promptly got him kicked out of state politics. Smarting under this
insult, Vaidya was waiting for the right moment to strike. He is said to have
found a willing partner in Dattatreya Hosbole, the young ABVP activist, now
holding a position in RSS. Hosbole who wanted to be the RSS pointsman for BJP
was dropped at the last moment under Modi’s pressure, ostensibly to keep the
ABVP out of political decision-making. Interestingly, it was ABVP activists who
made Vajpayee’s life miserable with the help of RSS veteran Gurumrty, then
Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) leader. In the bargain, one top Thakur leader is
said to have squeezed the most out of the ticket distribution saying dalit and
Muslim votes are as good as gone. And here one thought, the days of caste
politics are over. Obviously not.
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