Not only it has gone too far the RSS is taking undue advantage for political gain. The division of caste and minority appeasement has great value for the RSS for its uppercaste vote bank and it is very understood fact as of now.
The cheap tactics adopted by the sangh is indeed a shape is putting the Indian constitution to shame. There is no denying the fact that the RSS and its affilates are inciting and intimidating violence against muslims and daliths.The success of RSS strategy in splitting the country along religious lines is very visible lately with the rise in ghettoization in different cities across the country. The work of RSS shakhas has been outsourced to a large section of media, and different state run schemes, more so after the BJP was in power in the center for six long years and also in the states ruled by BJP governments, which essentially are the conduits for RSS shakha program and propaganda. It is more than clear that BJP wants to spread hate to consolidate its vote bank, without inviting censure of the due process of law. There is nothing surprising about that. BJP knows that it cannot come to power without the politics of hate against weaker sections of society, the religious minorities. Its ?glorious? run to power has always been preceded by such hate propaganda. It is very clear that only by pursuing identity politics and by opposing affirmative action for dalit, OBC and Muslims it can retain the support base required for winning elections. Once the elections are won than to use the existing mechanisms to further drive a wedge between people of different religious communities, to break the concept of Fraternity (Community) One is witnessing the wily ?genius? of communal politics in full operation. After the Gujarat carnage there is a definite change in its strategy. It is now resorting to low intensity, sustained, violence in different places. The advantage of this is that it does not invite serious reprimand from the official legal mechanisms and social-world opinion at large. Last two years we have seen the violence being orchestrated in Mau, Indore and many other places and to keep the issues like Baba Budan Giri on the boil.
One also has to remember that Hitler also came to power by using democratic means, by taking the oath to preserve democratic constitution in Germany. Once having come to power how he abolished democracy and brought in fascism is a history written with the blood of over a million Germans. Will we learn from history, as to how to nurture and protect the values of freedom struggle, the values of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, (Community)? By constructing and demonizing the ?other?, this political stream is breaking the concept of fraternity. One hopes we have mechanisms to ensure that those parties wedded to extra electoral non democratic outfits are not permitted to be part of electoral system.
