Apropos NITA is the New TINA and the box Last Chance to Save the Nation (March 17), the RSS was set up way before independence and its leaders fought for India’s independence. Since the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the RSS has become a whipping boy of the secular-liberal tribe and continues to be so even though it has been established that Gandhi’s killers were not RSS men. Rahul Gandhi still asserts that it was the RSS that killed Gandhi, hoping to wean votes from the BJP. Is anybody impressed? No. Young voters are angry with the UPA’s misgovernance and with the way it has derailed the economy. They are likelier to vote for a party with a strong, committed leader capable of setting right the wrongs of the UPA.
M.C. Joshi, Lucknow
Your article brings home the fact that the RSS will run this election for the BJP. It’s much like the Jamaat-e-Islami pushing one party or the other in Pakistan’s elections.
Anwaar, Dallas
With that titular jibe on Modi and the two Ambani brothers (their spouses, actually), your magazine has indicated how Modi is the industrialists’ property dealer in Gujarat, one who could well expand the scope of that role countrywide if he becomes prime minister.
Rajiv B. Jain, Delhi
Ever since Modi was made the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, the RSS has been actively working for him and the party. So, should the BJP come to power, it will end up doing what the RSS says.
V.N.K. Murti, Pattambi
For a magazine that once ran a cover pompously declaring that Modi can never be the prime minister, your obsession with Modi and the RSS is something I cannot comprehend. If you spend so much energy on someone who you think cannot be prime minister, what would you do if he really had a chance?
Akash Verma, Chennai
For the past two years, the RSS has been shouting from the rooftops that, thanks to the so-called Modi wave, the BJP has already won the elections. Then why does the RSS bother so much about the candidates the party fields, where it fields them, and the alliances it forms with other parties? And if indeed there’s a Modi wave, he should prove it by standing from the unlikeliest of seats and win resoundingly.
Kishore Dasmunshi, Calcutta
With its wretched and shameful track record in governance, the Congress should call it a miracle if it regains power. But despite the strong anti-incumbency, it’s a sorry sight to see the BJP-RSS’s desperation and their scramble and gamble for tie-ups with non-entities like Ram Vilas Paswan.
Amit Thakur, Tokyo
If influence of right-wing Hindutva has established itself on the internet, one must ask how this has been possible. The Indian state has failed in providing quality education that promotes clear thinking. ncert social science textbooks are excellent in inculcating the spirit of inquiry into our culture and how the nation was built, but the trouble is science-stream students end up not reading them.
R. Saroja, Mumbai
What Outlook fails to mention is that, even in a bad year like 2009, the BJP got 16 per cent of the popular vote. It’s a core votebank that will vote BJP even when there’s no wave.
Ramki, Delhi
Our so-called secularists who slept through 10 years of the UPA’s mega corruption cannot suddenly wake up now and cry, ‘Save the Nation’. Their hypocrisy shows clearly.
Nandakumar, Chennai
