Mahatma Gandhi, the most influential Hindu leader of Indian sub-continent was assassinated through a cruel ploy of RSS, because of his great vision of a secular India. The rising Hindu extremism at that time was so brutal, that all those who favored secularism met a tragic end. India at the time of Independence, declared itself to be a secular state, offering freedom to all the minority groups, as well as the fundamental rights of citizens, which convinced a large mass of Muslims to stay in India rather than migrate to newly born Islamic state, Pakistan. The Hindutva ideology has always been challenged by the first ideology of Republic of India, Secularism. The ideology traces its roots back to one of the first and most prominent right-wing political organization, Rashtriya Sawayamsevak Sangh otherwise known as the RSS, later on after the establishment of the Bhartaiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980, Hindutva ideology was revived again as the core operating principle of BJP. So, the question arises, what is Hindutva? The term Hindutva means, “Hindu-ness”, which is an ideology aimed to define the Indian culture in terms of Hindu values, which will be the ultimate Identity of India.
Hindutva, a term we hear so commonly, closely connected with BJP’s controversial rule, yet the majority of the world populace is unaware of its actual meaning and how it came into being. The regime of the current ruling party of Republic of India has never been able to isolate itself from the controversies with respect to rights of minorities, especially Muslims in the so-called secular state of India.
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