Two days after Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) founder Dattopant Thengadi lambasted Government’s economic policies with a liberal use of metaphors of Jaichands and Mir Jafars and official sources complained of ‘‘hurt’’ over these foul-strokes, RSS general secretary Mohan Rao Bhagwat sought to put cold water on the controversy today.Though he did not go into the specifics of the issue at hand, while addressing a workshop of the pracharaks loaned by the Sangh to the BJP at a farmhouse near here, Bhagwat said that every outfit of the Parivar was discharging its role by addressing its own constituency. ‘‘The goal of all our organisations is the same — a propagation of Hindutva.’’Bhagwat, who was speaking on the ‘‘Psychology of the Swayamsewak’’, told the 150-odd full-timers that the concepts of cultural nationalism and Hindu Rashtra, propounded by the BJP and the VHP, respectively, were the same. Similarly, the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and the SJM were working to the requirements of their own spheres. ‘‘The contradictions are only on the exterior, not within,’’ he said.Unlike circles close to Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee, sources in the BJP have reacted to Thengadi’s criticism with a bit of receptivity. They told mediapersons that ‘‘may be, there is a need for some mid-course corrections.’’ They feel that some of the points made by Thengadi were ‘‘more studied’’ than those enunciated often by some party leaders. The sources concede that the SJM leaders had a sound understanding of the impact of economic policies, unlike some BJP leaders, ‘‘who may not be able to tell the difference between the WTO and the WHO.’’
