The World Hindu Congress on Friday renounced the word Hinduism, contending that the term reflected oppressive and discriminatory and embraced Hindutva and Hindu Dharma to refer to the 'eternal' religion.
'Everyone is so excited. There is a lot of excitement everywhere. This was a long time desire of many people.'
At a time when the BJP's stars are at the top on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls, the Puri-Joshimath Sankaracharyas may have kick-started a row whose efforts might be to divide Hindus, not in the name of castes, but on what passes for greater belief, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Bhagwat said a sense of idealism is good and described himself not as 'anti-modern', but as 'pro-future'.
Modi hasn't raised or encouraged the raising of slogans such as 'Jai Sri Ram' at public meetings
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