NDA should spell out its Hindutva policy, says Shiv sena

Counting BJP’s abandoned Hindutva credentials, Shiv Sena asks the NDA on the eve of Republic Day to spell out its Hindutva policy.

The Shiv Sena on Friday asked the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to clearly spell out its Hindutva policy to ‘differentiate’ itself with Congress.

“When the NDA came to power, it put the Hindutva agenda on back-burner. The Congress, on the other hand, has been appeasing the minorities in the name of secularism. When this is the case, what is the difference between the two,” the party said in an editorial in its mouthpiece ‘samana’.

In Gujarat, Narendra Modi won the election with a thumping majority because of Hindutva plank while in Maharashtra, the Sena-BJP would come to power on the clear plank of Hindutva, the editorial said.

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One of the reasons for debacle of the BJP in the north was its abandoning of the Hindutva agenda though it came to power on this policy under Atal Behari Vajpayee.

But the NDA gave up the Hindutva agenda including the Ram Mandir issue, uniform civil code and article 370 of the Constitution, it added.

Despite the fact that more than 80 per cent of the people in the country are Hindus, they are the ones whose feelings and sentiments are trampled.

The NDA, this time, will have to take note of their feelings, the editorial added.