: Why Arvind Kejriwal is borrowing the RSS vocabulary of supremacist nationalism #IndiaNEWS That the Aam Aadmi Party is trying to beat the Bharatiya Janata Party at its own game has been evident over

Why Arvind Kejriwal is borrowing the RSS vocabulary of supremacist nationalism #IndiaNEWS
That the Aam Aadmi Party is trying to beat the Bharatiya Janata Party at its own game has been evident over the past couple of years.Its soft Hindutva has been demonstrated by its offer of free Ayodhya pilgrimages for senior citizens, party convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s recitation of the Hanuman Chalsa, his declaration that he had visited a Hanuman temple after his party’s victory in the Punjab Assembly elections, the party’s ringing silence over last year’s Delhi riots and party leader Atishi’s statement that seemed to blame Delhi’s communal trouble on Rohingya Muslim refugees.On Tuesday, when Kejriwal launched a campaign to “make India number one??? in the world, he seemed to have added the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s idea of nationalism and national pride to his arsenal. That idea is clearly a parallel to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s notion of making India a “vishwaguru??? or world teacher.The Hindutva organisation has often said that it aims to make India a world teacher by “providing solutions to the problems being faced by the world today???. It says that it is the god-ordained (ishwarpradatta) duty of Hindus to help the world overcome its problems.In reality, “vishwaguru??? is a euphemism for superpower. The Sangh’s use of this term is in line with its strategy...Read more

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