05-12-2007, 06:29 PM
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/may/12uppoll5.htm
After poll debacle RSS whips BJP, praises BSP
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which unsuccessfully used its full strength to mobilise voters towards the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Uttar Pradesh elections, has blamed the saffron party's debacle in the state on its<b> 'half-hearted' Hindutva campaign.</b>
An article in RSS mouthpiece Organiser compared Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati's strategy with the one adopted by late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and said both used 'soft Hindutva line' to woo voters.
'The BJP lost steam midway. Its campaign got stuck between half-hearted Hindutva and development governance,' it said.
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<b>'The collective anger of the poor and the Hindu is in full play. For the BJP, it is a setback. It has touched its lowest ever,' the write-up said, as it praised Mayawati for her 'Hindu social engineering.'</b>
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<b>'Issues like building a Ram temple were in the background. An aggressive Hindutva approach would have ensured greater success. But the party was extremely restrained.'</b>
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'Of course, she did not play the Hindu card. But like Indira Gandhi, on an altogether different format in the eighties, Mayawati subtly advanced a soft Hindutva line,' it said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
After poll debacle RSS whips BJP, praises BSP
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which unsuccessfully used its full strength to mobilise voters towards the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Uttar Pradesh elections, has blamed the saffron party's debacle in the state on its<b> 'half-hearted' Hindutva campaign.</b>
An article in RSS mouthpiece Organiser compared Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati's strategy with the one adopted by late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and said both used 'soft Hindutva line' to woo voters.
'The BJP lost steam midway. Its campaign got stuck between half-hearted Hindutva and development governance,' it said.
...
<b>'The collective anger of the poor and the Hindu is in full play. For the BJP, it is a setback. It has touched its lowest ever,' the write-up said, as it praised Mayawati for her 'Hindu social engineering.'</b>
...
<b>'Issues like building a Ram temple were in the background. An aggressive Hindutva approach would have ensured greater success. But the party was extremely restrained.'</b>
...
'Of course, she did not play the Hindu card. But like Indira Gandhi, on an altogether different format in the eighties, Mayawati subtly advanced a soft Hindutva line,' it said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->