Following JP Nadda's Indian Express interview declaring BJP's adulthood outgrowing the stage of parental supervision by RSS, there has been a lot of wishful and idle speculation about the RSS-BJP relationship. We then had Jagdeep Dhankhar praising the RSS using the Rajya Sabha chairperson's position, and now we have the Modi Government's order allowing government employees to participate in RSS organisation and activities.
The growing RSS imprint on administrative and influential positions across institutions from media and judiciary to bureaucracy and academia has been common knowledge. Now government employees in various departments will perhaps be recruited increasingly from the Sangh stable. The government order not only seeks to erase the dark history of RSS that had led to its ban by Sardar Patel in 1948 and to subsequent government order restraining government employees from participating in RSS, it also opens the floodgate of open manipulation of the administration by the Sangh brigade.
When an organisation which openly rejected the Constitution right at the time of its adoption is rehabilitated on this scale and in this manner, the threat to the Constitution and the republic becomes so much more endemic. Will the Supreme Court take note of this alarming threat of subversion from within? This order is yet another signal of the Modi government's arrogant insult to the 2024 mandate.
