Nagpur, 07 (HS): The Communist Party of

India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), both with

conflicting ideologies, have entered their 101st year making the year 2026 very

significant in India.

Referring to

the year of great importance senior journalist and political analyst Vinod

Deshmukh spoke in details about the ideological and political trajectory of the

two organisations.

RSS, which faced fierce opposition right from its

inception, has become inclusive during the 100 years. BJP forming the government

in Bengal for the first time is an evidence. On the other hand, the Communist

Party, which has been riding over the anti-Hindu wave, is experiencing a political

decline with its defeat in Keralam.

Deshmukh, who has closely studied both the Sangh and

the Left for over 50 years, spoke about the ideological moment of both the RSS and

the CPI. In 1920, MN Roy launched the Indian Communist ideology in Tashkent, USSR,

inspired by the Russian Revolution that followed the World War I. The Communist

Party of India (CPI) was then founded in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, by SV Ghate,

Shripad Amrit Dange, Muzaffar Ahmed and their associates on 26 December 1925.

The first post-independence communist government was

formed by Namboodiripad in Keralam in 1957. West Bengal then elected the Left

Front government, which ruled for 34 consecutive years from 1977 to 2011. The

Communists ruled Tripura for a similar period from 1978 to 1988 and from 1993

to 2018. In the last 100 years, leftism could not go beyond three states,

Deshmukh points out. The Left Front government in West Bengal was overthrown by

the Trinamool Congress. Whereas in Tripura, the BJP defeated the Left and now

in Kerala, the last bastion of the Left has collapsed due to the defeat of the

Pinarayi Vijayan government.

Deshmukh said that the Left's journey, both in terms

of political power and mass support, had been bumpy during the 100 years of its

existence.

The rise of the team

Like the Communist Party, the indirect seeding of

the RSS dates back to the 1920s. At the Congress session in Nagpur, the then

Congress leader Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar experimented with volunteers and founded

the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on 27 September 1925 at his residence in the

Juni Shukrawari area of Nagpur. Underlining the fundamental difference between

the Sangh and the Communists, Deshmukh said that the RSS was formed for social

causes, preserving cultural values and promoting national spirit. On the

contrary, the ideological stream of the communists followed the race of gaining

political power. Perhaps that is why the RSS has grown to reach the world stage.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which had suffered three

bans and extreme political opposition since its inception, continued to work

impartially, believing in the Charaiveti Charaiveti doctrine of the Vedas.

Attempts are still being made to link it with Gandhi’s assassination. Even in

this adverse situation, the RSS did not give divert its attention from the goal

of projecting and demonstrating its national spirit. It was the RSS volunteers who honestly worked

to serve the society during many crises the society faced.

Stating that through the national movement of Shri

Ram Janmabhoomi, the Sangh extended its reach to every corner of the country

and embraced the people through public service, Deshmukh said that the benefit

of this work of the RSS volunteers automatically were tasted by the BJP. That

is why the BJP has been in power at the Centre for 12 years and in 21 out of 28

states across the country.

Reasons for success

Highlighting the success of the RSS work and the

failure of the Communists, Deshmukh said that at the time of the formation of

the Sangh itself, Dr Hedgewar considered the saffron flag as a Guru and kept

the organisation away from individual worship. He also resolved to build a

pan-Hindu organisation by uniting people of all castes. Therefore, people were

attracted to it, ignoring the propaganda against it. On the contrary, the

communist movement based on the ideologies derived from foreigners like Karl

Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse-tung is in social, political decline and the child

born out of this Leftist movement, Naxalism, is also counting its last days.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar