Quotes About Hindutva

If Punjab could remain unaffected by the Hindutva plank and vote for development agenda, then the tide can, and will, turn in other states too.

It remains one of the saddest memories of my life—the memory of how, intimidated by decades of harassment and violence at the hands of Hindutva bigots, so many of my fellow citizens had to shame themselves into a public display of patriotism

Hindutva is an idea where you learn things that schools and colleges do not teach you - to say we are all one because DNA says there is no such thing as Aryan or Dravidian.

Ancient India cannot be fitted into the narrow box where the Hindutva activists want to incarcerate it.

Making a promise and honoring the word given is Hindutva for me.

Pre-modern Hinduism had its warts—big and small—as do all religions, but its subtleties were richer than what is now being thrust on its believers. Hindutva is in many ways the antithesis of Hinduism, and aims to create a society that is narrow, bigoted and inward looking, in which the co-existence with those that differ, such as the minority communities of various kinds, is becoming increasingly impossible, as demonstrated by the frequency of communal riots.

I follow the Hindutva of my father and grandfather.

No one should do politics in the guise of Hindutva and teach us what Hindutva is.

If development is defined in social and economic terms while Hindutva is defined in cultural terms, it should be possible for the BJP to construct a political platform that is reassuring to a large majority of Indians and is respectful to the letter and spirit of the Constitution.

To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.

Shiv Sena and BJP have the same ideology of Hindutva.

I am still with the ideology of Hindutva which cannot be separated from me.

Gujarat, which Modi has made the laboratory of Hindutva, is the leading edge of the onslaught of communal fascism in this country.

The Congress needs to consolidate its secular credentials. Its soft Hindutva approach would only help the BJP.

politicized character of Hindutva-watching leads to unabashed manipulations of the semantics of established terminology.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

Just as the policies and programmes for development have to adhere to the law of the land - respecting the basic principles underlying the Constitution - so, too, must the idea of Hindutva.

The BJP's central leadership needs to recast the party structure where you openly speak of Hindutva and Indianness.

The BJP brand of Hindutva was originally rooted in middle-class disenchantment with secular hypocrisies; Modi's version is defined simply by hard-edged hatred.