New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister and aggressive Hindutva propagandist Yogi Adityanath advocated the Hindu Rashtra ideology on Thursday, claiming that there’s nothing wrong with the Hindu Rashtra ideology. His latest advocacy of the highly controversial ideology came during a TV interview on Indian Government owned TV channel called DoorDarshan.
Hindutva fountainhead Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have been pitching to make Indian subcontinent a Hindu rashtra (nation).
Hindtuva monk-cum politician Yogi Adityanath said : “Hindu Rashtra ki awadharna kahin galat nahi hai … desh ki full bench ki Supreme Court ne iss par apna aadesh jaari kiya hai yeh. Hindutva koi mat, koi majhab ya upasana vidhi nahi hai. Balki it’s a way of life (There is nothing wrong in the concept of Hindu Rashtra. Full bench of country’s Supreme Court has issued its direction on it saying that Hindutva was not a faith, it was not a religion or way of worship. Rather it is a way of life.),”
He said no one should have a problem in accepting a Hindu nation.
The BJP defended Yogi’s remarks, saying the chief minister had not said anything wrong.
“For far too long we have been pseudo-seculars who frowned upon anything that is Hindu. What’s wrong in the CM’s statement? He said that he would follow the path of peace and progress. Hinduism has always stood for peace,” state BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
The BJP formed the government in Uttar Pradesh last month and appointed Yogi Adityanath, a five-term parliamentarian and head priest of Gorakhnath mutt in Gorakhpur, as chief minister after winning an unprecedented 325 seats with its allies in the February-March assembly elections.