WHY THE R.S.S. WORKED FOR INDIRA GANDHI IN DELHI ELECTIONS ?  

 Bangalore : A. B. Vajpayee’s resignation as the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, following his party’s defeat in the recent Delhi elections, has generated lot of speculation in the Press. Of this the most important is that Vajpayee is sought to be ousted by the RSS, the father of the BJP, for his “secular, progressive outlook which have won him support from Dalits, Muslims etc.” Added to this comes the Times of India editor Girilal Jain’s signed article (Feb. 16) revealing that the BJP got defeated in Delhi because the RSS worked for Indira Gandhi ! Yet another propaganda is that Vajpayee withdrew his resignation because he won his way in the BJP executive meeting at Jaipur that snubbed RSS. All this and many more stuff are sold to the newspaper readers who are ever ready to believe whatever the newspapers say. We in India ‘believe’ what we want to& only that what is in our interest. We have in this country what are called as opinion-makers whose sole job is to feed this manufactured opinion to the consumers. Fortunately, their tribe just does not exceed 5% of India’s vast population. Thank god, over 90% of the people can’t read the newspapers. Yet another speculation is that Vajpayee will form his own party with the support of Charan Singh. All sorts of cock-and bull stories are sold. And the newspaper readers, so much interested in political gossip, devour this nonsense with so much glee. The whole problem of India is this “‘educated” people. Not only they create all the problem, they are a problem unto themselves. Hence the need to educate the “educated”. Be that as it may, we could make out the RSS and its agents in the Press are at great pains to sell the idea that Vajpayee is being edged out by the hardcore in the RSS. What do they mean by this ? RSS may be bad but Vajpayee is a good boy and loved by the people. Such a propaganda aims at projecting Vaipayee so that the party he heads becomes more acceptable to the masses & then captures power after Indira Gandhi. But top leaders of the RSS tell us that Vajapayee is the blue-eyed boy of the RSS. The whole drama enacted by the pro-RSS press that Vajpayee is good and RSS is bad is sheer humbug. This well-orchestrated propaganda is done with a view to projecting Vajpayee’s image so that he becomes the next Prime Minister. If the BJP is different from RSS, why Vajpayee has not so far publicly condemned RSS ? Why he has not so far said BJP must cut off its RSS connections ? Why he has not weeded out the top RSS leaders from his party executive ? Why he has not so for refused to be dictated by Nagpur? Why he has not stopped attending RSS shakas in Delhi ? On the other hand we have any number of statements from top RSS leaders saying that BJP is the child of the RSS. Paul V. Parakal writing in CPI organ, New Age, (Feb. 20) says Vajpayee’s “resignation is merely the outward manifestation of the growing rift within the BJP”. But where is the chance for any rift within the BJP, completely controlled by the RSS which is nothing but a fascist organization? To have a rift there must be some scope for differences, some discussions. But RSS does not believe in any democracy. Everything is settled at Nagpur and dictated. It has a clear-cut ideology: class-caste dictatorship. How could there be any rift under such a situation ? Amid all these speculations, the statement of Girilal Jain, considered in journalistic circles sympathetic to RSS, (remember his unusual front-page signed article when the Moradabad anti-Muslim riots broke out, accusing the Muslims) that RSS worked for Indira Gandhi during the recent Delhi elections has lot of significance. He says a substantial section of the RSS refused to support BJP candidates. “The fact of the rift is indisputable. In constituency after constituency RSS volunteers stayed away from the BJP election campaign. They just did not show up . They are believed to have worked for the Congress.” This may co. me as a shock to many RSS admirers but not to us. Because RSS insiders tell us that RSS & Indira Gandhi are two sides of the same coin. They say that lately RSS has come to realise that Indira Gandhi is doing the job that it wanted to do in a much better way. They also say that through Vinoba Bhave & the Shankara-charayas the RSS & Mrs. Gandhi have come closer. , The Hindu leaders have also convinced the RSS that any amount of its efforts would not bring it to power as RSS has antagonised the two most important segments, namely Dalits & Muslims. Hence instead of making this futile bid why not back the winning horse ? The Vajpayee RSS rift story advertised by the Press is said to be part of this game. By making RSS look bad in the eyes Dalits & Muslims, such a propaganda only helps to swing the votes in favour of Mrs. Gandhi. Whole thing is stage-managed. Hence it was RSS that asked Vajpayee to resign & then withdraw so that Indira Gandhi would shine in contrast. After all the aim of RSS is to establish a high caste-rich (propertied) class dictatorship. If Indira could do this job with greater ease why not support her ? This is the latest thinking in the RSS inner circles. Dalits & persecuted minorities could be easily hoodwinked by this game Delhi results did show the way.