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Is the RSS unhappy with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi just ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha Polls? Well , going by the recent statements made by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on host of issues there is this apprehension. And this does not augur well for the BJP going into the 2019 Lok sabha polls very soon.
Recently RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat wondered why soldiers were dying on the country’s borders though there is no war and on the delays in constructing the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Then Bhagwat raised the issue of unemployment and inflation clearly critical of the government policies when he reportedly stated that inflation and unemployment have increased in the country and everyone has had to bear its impact.
“The policies in the country affect everybody. I do not make the policy nor you, but we all have to bear its impact. Inflation increased, I did not increase it nor you, but we all have to suffer. Unemployment increased, I did not increase it nor you, but we all have to suffer. That is why we will have to learn to live for our country” Bhagwat was quoted as saying.
On soldiers he said : “It is because we are not doing our job properly. Before Independence, people sacrificed their live for the country. After freedom, it was on the borders during a war. There is no war on…. still people are getting martyred”.
Maintaining that “there is no reason” why a soldier should die at the borders, he pointed out that “it is happening even without a war.”
Further , in an obvious expression of displeasure over the delays in constructing the Ram temple in Ayodhya, RSS general secretary Suresh ‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi sarcastically remarked that “now, it (the temple) will be constructed in 2025.”
The reference was to the series of delays, political and legal tangles bogging the BJP’s assurances of taking up the temple construction, which its ally in Maharashtra and centre the Shiv Sena has also repeatedly criticized in the past.
