RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat is not very popular right now among those who not just tilt but tip Right-wards. They view his recent statements about minorities, especially Muslims, as accommodation bordering on appeasement.

The more strident have even started mocking him as ‘Imam-e-Sangh’. They argue that while one can understand the BJP’s compulsion to tone down Hindutva because it runs the government, the RSS should have been unencumbered.

They expect the Sangh to pressure the BJP government against the very minoritism the party bitterly opposed on its way to power, not join it in its meekness. They expect the RSS to remain the watchdog for Hindu interests and not turn into a tail-wagging pug of political correctness.

Which is why many were disappointed when the RSS chief, at a three-day event in Delhi to commemorate the centenary of the Sangh, said: “From the day........

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