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“Hindutva Is All About Centre, Neither Left Nor Right”: Dattatreya Hosabale

The RSS leader stressed on the thought that there is space for ideas from both sides, the Left and the Right, as these are “human experiences”

Mumbai: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sah-Sarakaryavah (Joint General Secretary) Dattatreya Hosabale on Friday said that the ideology is neither Left nor Right.

While speaking at the launch of a book titled ‘The Hindutva Paradigm: Integral Humanism and the Quest for a Non-Western Worldview’ written by RSS leader Ram Madhav, Hosabale said, “The world had gone to (the) Left or was forced to go Left and now the situation is such that (the) world is moving towards the Right so that it’s at the Centre. That is what Hindutva is all about, neither Left nor Right.”

“I am from the RSS. We have never said in our discourse in the Sangh training camps that we are Rightist(s). Many of our ideas are like Leftist ideas and many definitely this so-called Rightist,” he added.

The RSS leader stressed the thought that there is space for ideas from both sides, the Left and the Right, as these are “human experiences”.

“There is no full stop in Indian tradition, calling it Left or Right are suitable for present-day geopolitics. The West and the East are not totally so, we have never in our discourse said we are Rightists. Many of our ideas as like Leftist ideas. The geographical or political divide in the East and the West that have blurred, dimmed and melted in the post-liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. The West is not West totally and East is not totally East, Left is totally Left and the Right is not totally Right,” Hosabale said, according to news agency ANI.

Hosabale further said, “Any forceful division or unification does not sustain, culture is the basis for that,” referring to how Germany united as a nation after the fall of the Berlin Wall and how the USSR fragmented.

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