Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s sharp rebuttal in the Lok Sabha this week to Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was not merely a routine parliamentary exchange. Shah said that the Congress has repeatedly tried to derive political mileage by targeting the RSS, but the people of the country have made it abundantly clear through their votes that those who adhere to the RSS ideology are the ones governing the nation today—and that this has happened not by anyone’s benevolence, but through a democratic mandate.

Shah’s strong remarks signal a deeper shift in Indian polity where the RSS has been the punching bag for most political parties, especially the Congress. Any association with the RSS had been categorised as a ‘liability’. A cartel of political parties and non-governmental organisations, backed by biased academia, created an ecosystem where the RSS was equated with Hindu orthodoxy and communalism.

Collapse of a Manufactured Moral High Ground

The moral high ground that this ecosystem had painstakingly created was based on a platform of lies and misinformation campaigns. This platform was demolished by Shah in his speech as he asserted that both he and the Prime Minister belonged to the RSS, whose philosophy is........

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