RSS: Show Mandir zeal in polls
Scripting the poll blueprint to ensure that the BJP does not lose the Lok Sabha election the third time in a row, the RSS has exhorted all its affiliates to show the same kind of zeal as was displayed during the Ram Janmabhoomi movement to bring the saffron party to power. Hindutva poster-boy and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is considered the top contender for the saffron party’s prime ministerial candidate.
At the Amravati meet of the Sangh Parivar, top Sangh leaders deliberated on the coordination issue between the Parivar’s affiliates and functionaries — from the state to district level — to make sure the BJP comes to power at the Centre.
Other poll-related aspects were also discussed during the meet. But coordination between the Sangh affiliates was one of the major issues that was discussed, sources said.
Sources disclosed the plan was discussed with BJP chief Rajnath Singh, who met the RSS top brass earlier this week at the “Manthan Shivir” in Amravati. Mr Singh had met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat last week as well to discuss poll-related strategy, including the coming Assembly polls.
The RSS, which often claims it does not meddle in the BJP’s affairs, has sent out a message to all its Sangh Parivar functionaries, former active members and cadre to start working in tandem to bring the saffron party to power at the Centre.
While the Ram Janmabhoomi movement had brought the BJP to national-level politics, the saffron party’s main poll planks will be good governance and development as it hash realised that the temple issue is no more a vote-catcher. Even Mr Modi reinvented himself from a “Hindutva mascot” to a development-oriented leader.
But in states like UP, where the polarisation of votes over the Hindutva issue is a possibility, the Sangh cadre will include temple politics in their poll strategy during their mass contact programme.
It was also discussed and decided that the Sangh Parivar functionaries would send regular updates to their seniors on poll-related strategies.
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