RSS, address the people rather than only Congress party--I

True to its arcane theory of regaining Akhand Bharat (a united and undivided India that stretches from Afghanistan to Mayanmar and beyond) and ushering in a Brhamanical culture (where only the upper caste Hindus would have power and sway), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh does not see that these are outdated. They cannot put the clock back. They also have a rigid chauvinistic view of the very limited and subservient role for women. As if these were not enough, it is also an organization that is not registered with the government of the country although it handles a budget that is astronomically more than many of the states of the union of India. It receives foreign donations to the tune of millions of dollar and yet it is hell bent on opposing any concessions to the backward Muslims according to its self delusional pet theories of the Hindu right that it is appeasement of the minority! Who would accept this kind of ideology in the 21st century?
If there are people who still enroll for RSS it is because of the organization’s ‘catching them young’ practice of cultivating the susceptible young by nurturing their impressionable minds with a harmful teaching of history and ‘national’ culture that not only excludes the minorities but also inculcates hatred for them.
Among the minorities also come people of foreign origin who have accepted Indian citizenship by marrying Indians or by free choice. One such person is the Congress party president and widow of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and daughter in law of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi. The RSS has often tried and maintained its tactics of rumour mongering and whispering innuendoes against her. SK Sudarshan enjoyed a brief span as the chief of RSS. But his long years since boyhood in the organization has convinced him that slandering opponents would weaken them and serve the cause of RSS. But he has missed a vital point.
His remark that she is an agent of the CIA and that she plotted the assassination of her husband Rajiv Gandhi and Indra Gandhi is no doubt puerile but with a purpose. It is calculated to deflect attention from the startling disclosure on the RSS involvement in bomb blasts across the country, from Hyderabad to Panipat in Haryana, from Malegaon to Modassa and beyond. Instead of feeling any remorse or correcting its obsolete ideology it has chosen to confront the Congress party headlong. The Congress party is only a political party and not the whole of rightful thinking people of India who may or may not be Congress party sympathizers.
A piquant situation arose in Malegaon on Dassera day this year. The Iqbal sports club stuck poles within the precinct of the ramparts of the fort imitating the RSS which also did the same many years ago and held physical exercise in another section there. The king ruling Malegaon more than 200 years ago had built the fort for security of his domain. The government had lent the inner part of the fort for a Marathi medium school for only education purposes. Holding physical exercise by the RSS is nothing to do education. The RSS took exception to the move of the sports club. The senior police officer scolded the members of the club and ordered them to remove the poles from their section. They insisted that the constitution of the country gives them the same right as it has given to the others. The RSS failed to furnish any written permission of the government for their physical exercise and worship of arms in the morning of the Dassera day and taking out a procession from there. The police forbade them from holding worshipping of arms there. This was the first occasion when the RSS had to start their worship and procession from outside the fort. There are hundreds of thousands of such schools and government buildings and public grounds where the RSS holds such meetings every day and every year. On this issue everywhere else in the country the RSS has no written permission and yet has enjoyed patronage of governments and immunity from the provisions of the Constitution of India. Their main contention is that their organization develops cultural nationalism which they think is Indian and embraces all of India. In practice it excludes the minorities who are also Indians. It militates against the basic provisions of the Constitution of India, discrimination of the citizens of the country based on religion. Can the RSS address the people of India on this issue rather than taking on a political party?