Gadkari leads secret mission to draft BJP's 'vision document'

 “according to the clever people, fascism was impossible in the West. Clever people have always made things easy for barbarians, because they are so stupid.” Horkheimer & Adorno

A brand new avatar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in the works. Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari is leading a secret exercise to draft a vision document for the party ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, even as saffron poster boy Narendra Modi embarks on Mission New Delhi.  Over the last two months, Gadkari has had a series of meetings with leading public intellectuals and academics in connection with the vision document.

He is known to have met Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Rajiv Kumar, a senior fellow with the CPR (formerly associated with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations), and Bibek Debroy, a professor at CPR. Dr Ramgopal Agarwala, a senior adviser to the World Bank, is also part of this forum. 

The BJP's refurbished statement of purpose is meant to bring to the fore the party's agenda on governance, public policy, energy security, bureaucracy, corruption, economic growth and issues that impact good governance.  "We have an open house and we talk to everybody across the political spectrum if they request us for ideas, but the CPR as an institution doesn't support any political party," Mehta, a key participant in the exercise, told Mail Today.  The exercise aims to touch the middle class and urban voters in order to demonstrate that the BJP has ideas that affect them and impact on governance. Rajiv Kumar agreed that his advice has been sought by BJP leaders and that he has provided the necessary inputs. 

Bibek Debroy told Mail Today that this is the second such exercise in the last few months. 

He said: "The earlier exercise was completed six months ago. This was done at the behest of a corporate titan and was a strategy doctrine for the BJP. I helped in its drafting. We looked at the imponderables before the BJP, evaluated it and prepared a blueprint for the future.

"The present exercise according to Debroy is completely different, is brand new, and deals with a new vision for the BJP." Sources say some academics questioned the credibility of the party at a recent closed door session held with Gadkari, given its communal mould. One speaker reminded the BJP leaders that if they wanted to connect with the real urban India, they may have to shun the ideas of right-wing icons like Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and M.S. Golwalkar for more progressive ideas... Read more: 

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Anil Nauriya: Portrait as mirror The Hindu, March 3, 2003

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The Savarkarist syntax (Anil Nauriya) 

Madhu Limaye's observations on the RSS (1979)

NB - Let us hope the learned well-wishers of the RSS also request the karyakartas to repudiate the Nazi inclinations of their favourite icons and founding fathers.. DS

"‘To keep up the purity of the race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the semitic races - the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here...a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by." ('Guruji' Golwalkar, second Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, in We, or our Nationhood defined, 1938)' . 

Incidentally, Allama Iqbal and Inayatullah Khan al-Mashriqi, founder of the Khaksars, were also fervent admirers f Hitler.

On March 25, 1939 the Hindu Mahasabha (led by V.D. Savarkar) issued the following statement: "Germany’s solemn idea of the revival of the Aryan culture, the glorification of the Swastika, her patronage of Vedic learning and the ardent championship of the tradition of Indo-Germanic civilisation are welcomed by the religious and sensible Hindus of India with a jubilant hope. Only a few socialists headed by Pandit J Nehru have created a bubble of resentment against the present government of Germany, but their activities are far from having any significance in India. The vain imprecations of Mahatma Gandhi against Germany’s indispensable vigour in matters of internal policy obtain but little regard insofar as they are uttered by a man who has always betrayed and confused the country with an affected mysticism. I think that Germany’s crusade against the enemies of Aryan culture will bring all the Aryan nations of the world to their senses and awaken the Indian Hindus for the restoration of their lost glory." (Milan Hauner, India in Axis strategy: Germany, Japan and Indian nationalists in the Second World War, 1981) - cited by Marzia Casolari.. read more: 

http://www.sacw.net/DC/CommunalismCollection/ArticlesArchive/casolari.pdf

Hitler's annihilation of the Romanis

“I as a German prefer much more to see India under British Government than under any other...I must not connect the fate of the German people with these so-called ‘oppressed nations’ who are clearly of racial inferiority” 
(Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, German edition, p. 747)

Theodor Adorno - Education After Auschwitz (1966)

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 “according to the clever people, fascism was impossible in the West. Clever people have always made things easy for barbarians, because they are so stupid.” Horkheimer & Adorno