Hosbole hard talks amid signs of BJP, RSS drift
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, October 3: Within the same week, the number two of the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh, Dattatreya Hosbole, had the Bharatiya Janata Party in a spot — first with an appearance at an event and second with his sharp utterances on the state of economy that too quoting the source that’s disowned by the Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre.
Hosbole, the general secretary of the RSS, represents the next decade of the saffron organization, and he is being groomed as the successor of the chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Hosbole was the key architect of buying peace between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party when the high command sought to push former PMO official AK Sharma in a formidable position in the affairs of the Hindi cow-belt. Hosbole’s chemistry with Adityanath has been the most talked about topic within the BJP circle.
The Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has a track record of not diluting its version of economy, and has been consistent with its stand against the foreign direct investment-driven economic model, for the RSS affiliate claims that the outflow far outweighs the inflows.
Hosbole went ballistic against the state of the affairs in the Indian economy at a webinar hosted by the SJM and struck the key themes which are highly uncomfortable for the Modi government – rising unemployment, rural distress, and income inequality.
Worse, Hosbole quoted the CMIE data to substantiate his concerns on unemployment. The Modi government on several occasions have stated that the CMIE data is not reliable. The BJP IT department head Amit Malviya claims that the CMIE is the shop of P Chidambaram, former Union Minister for Finance. Chidambaram is a Sunday columnist in a Noida-based daily in which he critiques the Modi government on the economic matters.
Five days before his utterances on the state of economy, Hosbole released the book ‘Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0’, which has been authored by Rajiv Malhotra. The book has accused the NITI Aayog of being in cahoots with the World Economic Forum to undermine India’s interests. The book has also alleged that the Cabinet Minister Smriti Irani is being groomed by the WEF for gaining influence in India. Malhotra in the book has built a grand edifice that India is compromising the data sovereignty in the Modi government. The man who unveils a book is largely known to have read the book, and Hosbole must have known the contents of the voluminous work of Malhotra.
Is there a drift between the BJP and the RSS? Or, the RSS just wants to assert that it’s overall the mother organization of the BJP, and its political affiliate shouldn’t go autonomous.
The reconstitution of the Parliamentary Board of the BJP was seen an attempt by the BJP to go autonomous, as the party dropped the RSS’ two preferred choices – Nitin gadkari and Shivraj Singh Chouhan, while also not giving space to Adityanath.
The intensity of the drift is a matter of debate within the saffron circle, while there is a concurrence that a similar situation prevailed during the last few years of the Vajpayee government.
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