Empower the Hindu society instead of rendering it subservient to the State.

Remedies: Pay close attention to the core Hindutva vote base on critical issues which impact its lives, dignity & future. 

J Sai Deepak.

As the day ends and the dust of election settles, I think, despite the losses congratulations are in order to the BJP-led NDA for having the numbers to form a government for the 3^rd consecutive time. All said and done, what could have been a Panipat was averted with a close shave.

As of this tweet, this is the final position. Come to think of it, but for UP, Rajasthan and Bengal, these numbers speak a lot but not enough. After all, numbers don’t tell the entire story in my limited view as a layperson in the realm of psephology.

I don’t have the resources or the first-hand knowledge to distill the reasons for the outcome. With this caveat, I will air a few general expectations which, in my view, are legitimate and reasonable. Whether they led to the outcome or not is for stakeholders to decide.

First – macro Hindu symbolism aside, it would help to pay close attention to the core Hindutva vote base on critical issues which impact its lives, dignity & future. The current numbers were perhaps made possible by this Hindutva core which votes out of loyalty to Dharma.

This core Hindutva base is mostly comprised of the middle class, tax paying, law-abiding Hindu who slogs personally, & bats for Hindutva despite the constant stacking of “social justice initiatives” in all forms & shapes against him/her. Clearly, it helps to keep them on your side.

In the interest of making their law-abiding lives liveable in an increasingly hostile environment, it would help to keep at a distance the newly-minted alleged Hindutvawadi social justice warriors who push Leftist anti-Dharmic stereotypes under the garb of Hindutva using Savarkar.

Second- it is possible to deliver social equity without pushing received stereotypes or constantly attacking traditional institutions that the Hindutva core holds dear. Surely there are ways of lifting people up without trashing tradition. Unless the goal of some is to destroy it.

Third – bridge the First & Second points by freeing Temples from State Control. Preserve tradition & recover d assets of Temples to educate & uplift those struggling for resources *regardless* of caste. Empower the Hindu society instead of rendering it subservient to the State.

For those who disagree with tradition (“orthodoxy”), the freedom of conscience guaranteed under the Constitution enables setting up of new institutions where they are free to subscribe to or deviate from tradition in accordance with the dictates of their conscience.

If State powers are sought to be wielded, especially in d name of Hindutva,to push d never-ending project of reform to “reform” Hindu traditional institutions out of their identity, the bhakta-led Sabarimala Movement against “social engineering” would be a good reminder.

Fourth – Respect Kshetras, their sanctity & their natural setting. They can certainly do with better cleanliness & organisation, but they are *not* infrastructure projects & must be approached with some respect for the Kshetra, its prakriti and the prakriti it is located in.

Fifth – Respect prakriti even in this important quest for development, especially in sensitive regions such as Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Unrestrained tourism & development which is not sensitive to the ecology of a place have consequences for the local *and* others.

Sixth – please understand the need to invest in humanities, especially in history. Decolonisation is an empty rhetoric if it is not followed up with concrete steps in the realms of education & culture because they are battlegrounds of the present to engineer a future.

The political and civilisational consequences of fabricated weaponised history has played itself out on the streets and elsewhere over the last decade to the detriment of the Hindu society and Bharat. Therefore, decolonising humanities is equally a political imperative.

Seventh – Tackle illegal migration with an iron hand. Parts of Bharat are being taken over and the lives of Bharatiyas being made miserable, including on the economic front through loss of employment at every level to illegal migrants. Law and order is the first casualty.

The Delimitation game has its limits in containing & dealing with illegal migration. After a point, even that can’t hold fort because of demographic inversion. Viewed from every perspective, illegal migration poses perhaps the biggest threat to Bharat’s integrity.

Bharat badly needs an NRC and a new census to understand where we stand demographically. Without this data, we are practically flying blind under the mistaken assumption that pure economic growth is the silver bullet to all our problems. It is necessary but *not* sufficient.

Finally, we typically understand the value of a parliamentary majority and what could have been achieved with it *after* letting go it. Let’s hope we are ready with a clearer vision for 2029 or earlier. Jai Shri Ram.

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Source: Tweets of J Sai Deepak.

J Sai Deepak is a Hindtva think-tank and Advocate in Supreme Court of India.