HiNdUtVa-an outdated word?????

In the last Parliament elections,we heard a lot about the term Hindutva,as Bharatha Janatha Party (BJP) proposed Hindutva as their main agenda in their election campaigns.The term even caught the eye of media and people and even the elections as their agenda was widely rejected by the people of India,making their conditions even worse after elections and the internal conflicts in their party came out to the public.

Most of the people considered Hindutva as something to do with the  religion Hinduism and many of the followers of the other religions rejected the dogma.

Actually many people don't have an idea of what Hindutva actually means??

  Let's take a peep into this subject...

The term Hindutva was actually coined by Veer Sawarkar n the early days of 19th century.At that time,he took the chance to describe Hidutva as a feeling to express one's loyalty to Mother Nation India.The one's who consider India as their Motherland ,Fatherland and Holyand can be considered as a follower of Hindutva,even if he is a HIndu,Muslim,Sikh,BUddhist or a Parsi.Though there are similarities between Hindutva and Hinduism,both are not the same.Actually,both of these dogmas don't have any central force to guide like priests or nabi's...They became a culture in its passage and flourished in the heart's of millions..

 Hinduism is a culture and the culture marks the style of living of people of India.Unlike the Western culture,it offers a traditional way of living,making it tough to observe if one is moving away from the essence of this culture.It is a culture that took the essence of other cultures and develop itself into a form with loads of followers.It was due to this characteristic that the foreigners were widely accepted in our country,as this culture teaches us to welcome all.

 Even though Hinduism have many religious books,unlike Islam or Christianity or any religion ,it do not take any particular book as the Holy book.These books actually teaches us how to live a life to attain the ultimate Moksha.

 The Hindutva too preaches us the same principles.This culture gave equal status for all religions.No matter whether one is from the religion of Hinduism,Islam,Christianity or any other.The followers can be called as the follower of Hindutva or a Hindu.There were intrusions into this culture at times,during the reign of Muslim Emperors and invasion from West.But this culture was able to maintain its principles and made most of those rulers to follow it like the greats of Akbar,the BAADSHAH.So it gained a wide interest in the life of people of many countries.The followers spread this culture by following a moral way of living,taking into  consideration to revive the minds of people all over the world.

   LOKASAMASTHA SUKHINO BHAVANTHU is what it preaches.

 In the modern history of India,the term gained importance when parties like BJP,VHP(Vishva HIndu Parishad),RSS,Bajrang Dal,Sriram Sena which takes extremists stand with the term Hindutva.The sense bursted out with the demolition of Baber-e-Masjid in Ayodhya,where it is believed to be built destroying the Ram temple bby the Muslim rulers in the early years.The ones called KARSEVAKS demolished the mosque which lead to loads of riots in many parts of India.But this extremist movement made the followers of hHIndu religion to rise to the occassion thinking that BJP was the ultimate saviour for them to maintain the lives of Hindus as a lot of homicidal activities were happening in various parts of Kashmir Valley,which made Kashmiri Pundits to run away from heir place.

  This feeling of secureness made BJP to be an undisputed political power in India.The elections reflected this in areas where Hindus felt unsecure about their life and this made BJP to rule the nation and AB Vajpayee to lead a government to complete its period without Congress support.

BJP and its cultural sects even demanded for a Uniform Civil Code (USC) to the citizens.USC  means to have a common law for the whole people of India.BUt the others,mainly Muslims rejected this proposal as it would bring an end to many of their rituals like TALAQ in which a woman would be divorced by saying Talaq 3 times.These all created wide tensions all over India.Moreover ,the conversion of people by Christian sects made them more angry.So this also created more tensions.Money from West heavily invested in these activities.So the tension became worse.

 But when BJP came to power,they showed only a mild dose of Hindutva .In the elections,they promised the buiilding of Ram Temple in Ayodhya

But they failed to do it.This made the extremists more angry.At that time even L K Advani showed some tolerance to Jinnah.It also created tensions among the followers.

These all resulted in 2004 elections and BJP was made to sit in the opposition.BUt before getting out of the power,they were able to show the world that India has the ability to become a super power.The Congress Government which followed thereafter was ale to live upto the expectations of people of India,taking the development activities which BJP had started.

 This reflected in 2009 elections.People voted for the development agenda of Congress than the Hindutva.so BJP lost in the polls.But it can't be considered as a huge defeat,even the numbers say so.Because.the modern world always votes for development.But the security system in India was affected at the time of Congress ruling in the means of serial blasts and 26/11 incidents in Mumbai.

 The controversial remarks of Varun Gandhi also made the people of other religions to defeat BJP,though he won in Peelibeth by a huge margin.Narendra Mdiji,another pioneer of Hindutva was able to escape due to the development agendas he followed in Gujarat ,sinking Hindutva into its developments.

 So these all shows that,now the people wants more development.So the ruling of a country should not be done by giving intolerance to other people following various religions.But,by an agenda which gives security to the people of India for their property and lives to all sects of people.BJP failed to convince it to the people.Mainly,internal upsets ruined them.

So its time now for BJP ,not only to rely on Hindutva agenda but providing the people some faith in the party leaving all internal conflicts.Otherwise,the people would ignore them seriously.

So in all,Hindutva is a way of living which enlightened the world rather than intolerance to other religions..Hindutva should be implied by all parties for the bright future of India,showing examples to the world taking its own cultural aspects.In  all,Hindutva is not a religion:its a culture...

    LOKA SAMASTHA SUKHINO BHAVANTHU......................