Bhagwat pats Modi govt, pushes Swadeshi model of development

“The government should now ensure that these policies maintain the momentum in a determined and well-organised manner We must give the government some time to do more. It doesn’t have a magic wand in its hand.

“But we mustn’t forget that security and well-being last only when the country becomes self-reliant,” Bhagwat said, addressing a gathering on the occasion of Vijayadashmi here on Saturday.

“The new policy-makers should also take best advantage of vision and experience of great leaders like Swami Vivekanand, Yogi Arvind, Swami Ramtirth, Tagore, Tilak, Gandhi, Netaji Bose, Sawarkar, Ambedkar, Vinoba Bhave, Lohia, Golwalkar, Jaiprakash Narayan and Deendayal Upadhyaya to evolve a suitable development model,” Bhagwat said.

Without naming the RSS, Bhagwat stressed the role of socio-cultural organisations, saying, “history has shown that mere political power can’t bring about desired changes. In a democratic system, the government gains tremendously from their (organisations’) activism, awareness and maturity and hence the governement must keep its dialogue with them going.”

Bhagwat also stressed use of Swadeshi products and more number of youths joining armed forces.

Stressing the importance of “values” in society, Bhagwat even called for “government check on tendency of visual and print media to offer programmes and advertisement degrading morality in society” along with the society itself raising the bar in observing them in day-to-day conduct. “The families should make it a point to have their dinner together and engage in discussion on issues other than cricket, films and politics,” he added.

Bhagwat called for a “Bharat which preserves all pluralities of the universe and is capable of preserving itself as anexample of integration.”

“ISIS is result of oil greed, Naxalism of exploitation”

Referring to ISIS terror, Bhagwat blamed it on the hunger of the West to control oil in Islamic countries. “What we are witnessing today is the same old single-minded, materialistic, consumerist and a self-centred ideology at work in overt or covert forms. It is this self-centred collective greed that gives rise to exploitation, suppression, violation and fanaticism. Precisely, operating on the basis of such self-interest by Western countries is responsible for the new incarnation of terror and fundamentalism in West Asia in the form of ISIS,” Bhagwat observed.

About Naxalism, Bhagwat reiterated his view that exploitation is providing cannon fodder for Naxal guns.