Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati of Dwarka Peeth slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for causing the “biggest damage to the ideals of Hinduism”. He hit out at PM Narendra Modi for not meeting 2014 poll promises even after four years.
In an interview to India Today, Shankaracharya criticised the role played by the saffron party and the right-wing organisation while commenting on the increasing communal tensions in the country.
On Mohan Bhagwat
He underlined that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat doesn’t know anything about Hinduism.
“Bhagwat says that Hindu marriage is a contract, whereas Hindu marriages are solemnised for life. Bhagwat says anyone who is born in India is Hindu, then what would someone who was born in England or America from Hindu parents be,” Shankaracharya asked.
On beef export
Shankaracharya said that the BJP leaders are the biggest exporters of beef and it is the same two-faced party that is purportedly against cow slaughter, calling beef export a blot on the face of India.
On 2014 poll promises
He asked whether the BJP has kept any of the promises it made during 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Shankaracharya further asked if the youth have been given gainful employment and have the poor of India been given the Rs 15 lakh they were promised.
He asserted that these are the questions that the BJP leaders, including PM Modi, fail to answer now.