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Most of the BJP leaders are former RSS members including modi. Source https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29593336 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-in

Most of the BJP leaders are former RSS members including modi. Source https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29593336 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29593336 RSS ideology is to make india a hindu religous state. Hinduism is based on the vedic books which advocate varna system.

malware7 6y ago
Varna system is based on Manusmriti which came long after vedas.
manishsharan 6y ago
> Hinduism is based on the vedic books which advocate varna system You are wrong. The Vedas have nothing to do with the varna (caste) system. The caste system came much later and they have nothing to do with the foundations of Hinduism. There are several sects of Hinduism which explicitly reject the caste system. Look up Arya Samaj etc. I have a feeling have I wasted my time in engaging with facts for someone whose mind is already made up about my faith.
- srean 6y ago
  It think it is intellectually dishonest to cast Arya Samaj in the same category as Vedic Hinduism. Considering Hinduism's age it was an very recent revisionist reform that happened yesterday. It was nowhere close to main stream Hinduism and wasn't the only such attempt at a reform. Existence of such reforms does not take away the well entrenched nature of the caste system and how far back it goes in time.
arjun1296 6y ago
No one elected RSS leader. People have elected BJP leaders. There is a spectrum of right-wingness b/w BJP and RSS. They don't really want Hindu Rashtra. Most of them issue Hindu Rashtra rhetoric for mass-appeal just like every politicians use "God" in western democracies.
- srean 6y ago
  > No one elected RSS leader. That's just semantic skullduggery. RSS does not fight elections, but they play king maker in these right wing party politics and take part sending their emissaries through revolving door between "social" and the "political"
Bhardwaj4rt 6y ago
Nonsense. Own creative theories by medieval privileged set now become "propaganda" loving "reservationists" treasure trove for justifying their own vile anti-humanity protectionism as quota. Point is, there are two branches of Hindu (Rather I prefer to term it as “Ancient" worldview).1- <Smarta> etymology from <Smriti> or from memory.2- <Srautya> etymology from <Shruti> or from listening.Now,it is not made differences in common perception and sense among those who doesn’t know or trouble to research on the same. State to state or even region to region as ASEAN countries, so called Hinduism and it’s values are different. Hindi derivatives languages speaking belts are all obsessed with casteism and some Principalities of South India. But, East of mainland India including Thailand, Myanmar and Far East regions— things are different. Shrauttyas don’t believe in casteism, but Smartyas does. Presently in "Clerk-Grade Coaching Institute-esque Macaulay education system, their so called mainland pundits often fails to infer those intrinsic and inert social dynamics in their societies. Nowadays, it has more opportunities (albeit in fakery of Government services and Social Welfare)to be in so-called untouchable set than in so-called hierarchical upper caste system—and, to continue this open bias, deprivation and denialism- urban 3rd or 4rth middle class novo caste activists usually churn out this conspiracy theory of victim hood. Btw, we are politically Indian and historically prior to East India Company never ever under any invaders rule or subjugation. There is no casteism in our part despite people do practice ancient religion of the subcontinent. Same in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos or South Eastern a China, Vietnam and Myanmar. There Hinduism is known as Balamon. Deities are there but with different names.Brahma is known in South East China as Fantian, Shiva as Shu La, Buddha as Baojio, Narayan as Nan La as so on and on... Hinduism there is rather a philosophy than mere food habits or cows ! Brahmans and all other castes does exists in other places but not the "reservation-oriented-Bihar" politics and opportunists.

malware7 6y ago

Varna system is based on Manusmriti which came long after vedas.

manishsharan 6y ago

> Hinduism is based on the vedic books which advocate varna system You are wrong. The Vedas have nothing to do with the varna (caste) system. The caste system came much later and they have nothing to do with the foundations of Hinduism. There are several sects of Hinduism which explicitly reject the caste system. Look up Arya Samaj etc. I have a feeling have I wasted my time in engaging with facts for someone whose mind is already made up about my faith.

srean 6y ago
It think it is intellectually dishonest to cast Arya Samaj in the same category as Vedic Hinduism. Considering Hinduism's age it was an very recent revisionist reform that happened yesterday. It was nowhere close to main stream Hinduism and wasn't the only such attempt at a reform. Existence of such reforms does not take away the well entrenched nature of the caste system and how far back it goes in time.

arjun1296 6y ago

No one elected RSS leader. People have elected BJP leaders. There is a spectrum of right-wingness b/w BJP and RSS. They don't really want Hindu Rashtra. Most of them issue Hindu Rashtra rhetoric for mass-appeal just like every politicians use "God" in western democracies.

srean 6y ago
> No one elected RSS leader. That's just semantic skullduggery. RSS does not fight elections, but they play king maker in these right wing party politics and take part sending their emissaries through revolving door between "social" and the "political"

Bhardwaj4rt 6y ago

Nonsense. Own creative theories by medieval privileged set now become "propaganda" loving "reservationists" treasure trove for justifying their own vile anti-humanity protectionism as quota. Point is, there are two branches of Hindu (Rather I prefer to term it as “Ancient" worldview).1- <Smarta> etymology from <Smriti> or from memory.2- <Srautya> etymology from <Shruti> or from listening.Now,it is not made differences in common perception and sense among those who doesn’t know or trouble to research on the same. State to state or even region to region as ASEAN countries, so called Hinduism and it’s values are different. Hindi derivatives languages speaking belts are all obsessed with casteism and some Principalities of South India. But, East of mainland India including Thailand, Myanmar and Far East regions— things are different. Shrauttyas don’t believe in casteism, but Smartyas does. Presently in "Clerk-Grade Coaching Institute-esque Macaulay education system, their so called mainland pundits often fails to infer those intrinsic and inert social dynamics in their societies. Nowadays, it has more opportunities (albeit in fakery of Government services and Social Welfare)to be in so-called untouchable set than in so-called hierarchical upper caste system—and, to continue this open bias, deprivation and denialism- urban 3rd or 4rth middle class novo caste activists usually churn out this conspiracy theory of victim hood. Btw, we are politically Indian and historically prior to East India Company never ever under any invaders rule or subjugation. There is no casteism in our part despite people do practice ancient religion of the subcontinent. Same in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos or South Eastern a China, Vietnam and Myanmar. There Hinduism is known as Balamon. Deities are there but with different names.Brahma is known in South East China as Fantian, Shiva as Shu La, Buddha as Baojio, Narayan as Nan La as so on and on... Hinduism there is rather a philosophy than mere food habits or cows ! Brahmans and all other castes does exists in other places but not the "reservation-oriented-Bihar" politics and opportunists.