Is Hindutva same as Hindu?

Hinduism is the name given to the most ancient and persistent religion on the Indian subcontinent, and Hindutva is the name by which the ideology of the Hindu right, represented by the political party Bharatiya Janata Party, or Indian People’s Party (BJP), is known.

Is Bhakta a Gujarati?

Indian (Gujarat, Karnataka): Hindu (Bhatia, Brahman) name, from Sanskrit bhakta ‘devotee’. It is found in the Bhatia community in Gujarat and among Saraswat Brahmans of Goa who have migrated to coastal Karnataka.

What is the difference between the BJP and Congress?

Today, the BJP has a prime minister from an OBC community. RSS member K.N. Govindacharya worked on the OBC project. By contrast, the Congress allowed itself to be uprooted by the rise of the OBC movement and has to date not been able to figure out the caste strategy.

Is the BJP the real Hindutva party?

The BJP has ensured in its 40 years of politics that there are no Hindutva splinter groups. Having been on the fringes of power, it knows the importance of ideological consolidation. All Hindutva forces are together, from the BJP to the Bajrang Dal. The Congress, by contrast, allowed itself to be splintered again, thus fragmenting secular politics.

Is the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) an upper caste party?

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is limited to its Jatav vote. How the BJP can be an upper caste-dominated party and still woo OBCs, even Dalits and tribals, is a model to study. Propose to oppose: L.K. Advani always spoke of the BJP as an alternative model, and alternative vision.

Why is the Congress Party 135-year-old?

The Congress party likes to be proud of its legacy, of being a 135-year-old party. This historical heft exists only in the imagination of its supporters, because the Congress has been transformed so many times that nobody really sees it as the party of Gandhi or even Nehru anymore.