Speaking to the media here on Monday, Devkinandan Thakur said it is not his job to react to the statements of politicians, but he wants to present the truth of Sanatan Dharma.
Addressing The Debate 2026 event at the Calcutta Club, Aiyar said that “Hindutva is Hinduism in paranoia.”
During the meeting, senior organisational office-bearers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held in-depth discussions with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and other top functionaries on future strategies.
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray launched a scathing attack on the Fadnavis government at a press conference in Nagpur on Thursday, saying that holding the state assembly's winter session in Nagpur has now become a mere formality, as serious issues facing Vidarbha and the entire state are being completely ignored.
In a move aimed at expanding its social base and spreading the message of Hindutva to a wider audience, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is gearing up for a large-scale nationwide outreach drive.
The idea of nationality as a marker of belonging emanating from one’s ancestral land is neither new nor unique.
There are about 1.2 billion Hindus in the world. India, which has a population of 1.4 billion, has 80 per cent of its population Hindu. This means that there are 1.1 billion Hindus in India or 93 per cent of the global Hindu population.
Underscoring Hindutva, propagation of which has catapulted it to power at the Centre, the game plan will be practiced with visits to various temples in the city. The visits to the deities will be without flags sending a message to its core support base, it was learnt from party sources.
The development came on a day when another Congress stalwart Salman Khurshid’s book on Hindutva and Ayodhya stirred a hornet’s nest by likening forces of ‘Hindutva’ to the dreaded terror outfit ISIS.
The BJP's strategy provides a good model. There is only one Hindutva party in India. All Hindutva forces are together, from the BJP to the Bajrang Dal. The Congress, by contrast, allowed itself to be splintered again, thus fragmenting secular politics.
