RSS will drive the BJP

Arindam Sarkar

Six months back, at the height of the ponzy scam, RSS Prachar Pramukh Dr Manmohan Vaidya said that the situation was ideal for the BJP to corner the Trinamool Congress in Bengal. Also, the BJP could become the principal Opposition party in the State.

After the recent debacle of the BJP in the civic polls, the RSS thinks that the BJP has to reorient itself and chalk out a new strategy to take on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the 2016 Assembly polls in Bengal. Meanwhile, the RSS will also become more proactive in the run-up to the elections.

In the coming days, the RSS in Bengal would infuse more swayamsevaks into its political wing – the BJP – to strengthen the organization, to push the campaign against infiltration, to compel the State government to issue work permits to the infiltrators in order to keep them under scanner and highlight the deeper social problems posed by both the unrecognized and the recognized madrasas in Bengal.

Already, RSS pracharaks Amal Chattopadhyay, who is the BJP State general secretary (organization); Subrata Chattopadhyay, State BJP’s assistant general secretary (organization); and Dilip Ghosh has joined the State BJP.

In the coming months, a couple of new pracharaks would be inducted into the BJP. They would convey the navigation line of the Sangh to the saffron party here in the run-up to the 2016 Assembly polls.

“It is a done thing. In the past, many pracharaks or swayamsevaks have joined the BJP to do political work. In Bengal, we have so far 1,600 shakhas and each shakha has around 110 swayamsevaks. We are working in 4,000 villages of the State,” said RSS spokesperson Jisnu Basu.

The RSS leaders said Sarsanghachalak Mohan Bhagwat, who had visited Kolkata in December 2014 when came to attend the golden jubilee function of the Viswa Hindu Parishad, had already laid down the roadmap of the RSS here. Mohan Bhagwat had indicated his line in his Vijay Dashami speech in 2014, where he spoke at length about the social problems caused by the madrasas and the security crisis posed by border infiltration in Bengal and Assam.

According to the RSS leaders, Mohan Bhagwat categorically said that infiltration escalates Jihadi activities and poses a serious threat to our national security. However, this crisis cannot be fought only politically. The swayamsevaks have to create a social awareness and bring about reforms in the society that would prevent rampant border infiltration.

“Since the border is porous, we want the State government to identity the infiltrators and give them work permits if they are working here as labourers. This would help the government to keep a tap on infiltrators,” said Jisnu Basu.

The RSS is very concerned about the rise of unrecognized madrasas and the Jihadi activities being carried out there. The RSS says the anti-national activities is only one concern, even the recognized madrasas actually do not impart correct education in humanities and science subjects to young minds.

“The history is being selectively taught. History begins with the coming of the Muslim invaders. There is no mention of Gautam Buddha, Ashoka or Harshavardhan. Mainstream education is not imparted in madrasas and that is harmful for young minds,” explained Jisnu Basu.

Finally, the RSS wants to make the people aware of the financial corruption of the State government. The RSS will tell the people that they should vote against a corrupt regime and bring in a clean government.