From: srinivas@vision.crd.ge.com (Chukka Srinivas)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: BM-RJB Issue (more developments)
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:56:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: crd.1992Oct12.205645.29883
Organization: GE Corp. Research & Development, Schenectady, NY


In article <BvvHn0.I4o@ucunix.san.uc.edu> Raj Bhatnagar writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.235205.19326@cs.wayne.edu> uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar) writes:
>
>It is a matter of which faction will have a larger
>>influence on the date when RJB temple is built.  If Arjun singh
>>gets victorious, you will see RJB temple not now, but next year
>>or the year after that (but nevertheless, it will be built.  Trust
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>>the VHP and RSS on that).  If arjun singh loses by oct 31st, the
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>>temple will soon be built.
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>
>I fully agree with you that the temple will eventually be 
>built at the original site.May be soon or, if Arjun Singhs
>persist, in a few years. But is that going to disappoint
>BJP/VHP? Or would a delay in the construction of the temple
>be seen as a defeat for/by VHP/BJP?
>
>I don't think so.
>
>The objective for which VHP/BJP have started the RJB movement
>is not limited to the construction of the temple alone. The
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>much wider objective is to fight off and eliminate the opposition 
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>to the renaissance of the Indian-civilazational identity for India.
>RJB in this fight is as symbolic as the ceremonial horse of an 
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>"Ashvamedha Yagna." Any challenger to RJB is being faught off. And
>successful construction of RJB at the original site can be easily
>equated with the successful return of the cerermonial horse. After
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>RJB construction, very little, if any, opposition will be left to the
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>Hindutva being the name of India's national identity and ethos.
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    A very facistic and scary thought packaged in
    a sophisticated language.


    Reminds me of a ABVP/BJP/VHP slogan i saw on street walls,
    when i was in Hyd. this August.

    " One Religion - One Caste -- One Country"

    ( Telugu version: Okka Matham , Okka Kulam , Okka Desham)


>
>
>So, VHP could have constructed the temple in many other ways, but its
>objective is to bring into the political battlefield all those forces
>that are opposed to the renaissance of the Indian-civilizational identity
>and seek their political death. 
>
>They seem to be succeding splendidly in this battle so far. The irony is
>that there are very few who realize this whole wider dimension of the
>RJB struggle. RJB is Ramayan's Seeta; Babri Structure is Mahabharat's
>Duryodhan, and the currently rampant, vote-bank guided, pseudo-secularism
>is the Ravana or the greed of the Kauravas. I think the current anti-VHP/BJP
>political forces in India are just too weak (from a long term perspective)
>to offer any sustained opposition to the tide that VHP/BJP have 
>unleashed in the arena of Indian politics. The main reason is that all the
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>non-VHP/BJP political forces in today's India are nothing but edifices 
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>created for acheiving the goals of personal ambitions and gratifications.
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   Too simplistic analysis.
   Even if what Mr. Raj Bhatnagar says is true, 
   anyday, non-VHP/BJP political forces are more
   progressive than the neo-nazi politics of
   VHP/Shiv-sena kind.


>>Seetamraju Udaya Bhaskar Sarma
>>(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
>>
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>
>---raj

srinivas.
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